New research details the subcellular structures in neurons that enable signals to be transmitted from where they are received at specific sites on dendrites to the decision-making cell body located ...

Collagen, the body's most abundant protein, has long been viewed as a predictable structural component of tissues. However, a ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

The management of Leishmania donova ni (LD), responsible for fatal visceral leishmaniasis (VL), faces increasing challenges due to rising drug-unresponsiveness, leading to increasing treatment ...

Cryo-electron tomography (also cryo-ET or electron cryotomography) is a technique where an electron microscope is used ... and validate a method to prepare, label, and image proteins at mammalian ...

By electron microscopy, the glomerular capillary loops showed prominent amorphous subendothelial widening with mesangial cell interposition as well as electron-dense immune-type deposits (Figure 4).

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Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the brain to ...

The Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory (GFSL) has procured a new Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Sigma 360 VP. The equipment will be used for testing gunshot residue and ...

With the latter, you could also use an older Raspberry Pi 2 or Raspberry Pi (1) SBC. OpenFlexure Connect is an electron-based client for the OpenFlexure Microscope pre-installed on the aforementioned ...

Researchers have designed and built the world’s first microscope made entirely from 3D-printed parts. And because the open-source plans are already available online, almost anyone can assemble ...