This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

There are as many as 86 billion neurons in the human brain. They make trillions of synaptic connections, with each neuron connecting with other neurons to create a complex network.  It is through ...

A hybrid microscope allows scientists to simultaneously image the full 3D orientation and position of an ensemble of molecules, such as labeled proteins inside cells. The microscope combines polarized ...

Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes, and sometimes two instruments, ingeniously recombined, can accomplish ...

Scientists have developed Rhobo6, a light microscopy probe that reveals extracellular matrix structures in live tissues, ...

In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell select this information? A large molecular machine called the spliceosome ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have created the first comprehensive protein-level atlas of brain development, ...

This valuable study reports on the critical role of ANKRD5 (ANKEF1) in sperm motility and male fertility. However, the supporting data remain incomplete. This work will be of interest to biomedical ...

Scientists in China claim to have developed a new type of ultra-thin optical fiber that could improve brain imaging and boost high-speed communications. This fiber, which runs on an optical neural ...

Yang is director of Yale's aberration-corrected electron microscopy core facility, a comprehensive electron microscopy and spectroscopy lab focusing on materials science research. The study is a ...

Combine scanning electron microscopy and elemental analytics: the best-in-class EDS geometry of Sigma increases your analytical productivity, especially on beam sensitive samples. Get analytical ...

IN the past, considerable controversy has centred upon the interpretation of the observed optical heterogeneity of the secondary-cell walls of conifer tracheids when viewed between crossed Nicol ...