Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate network ... LICONN is the first technology beyond electron microscopy capable of reconstructing brain tissue with all the synaptic connections between ...

Electron microscope image of a nerve fiber with myelin (in black) in the optic nerve of an MS patient. In yellow, the spaces between myelin layers that are enlarged in MS) Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate ... The researchers claim LICONN is the first technology beyond electron microscopy (EM) that is capable of reconstructing brain tissue with ...

Applying new technology sparked curiosity. Pawel Burkhardt’s collaboration with Maike Kittelmann, a 3D electron microscopy expert, led to the important observation that one single neuron in the ...

A University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher received a $2.4 million National Cancer Institute grant to ...

With the inventions of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in 1931 and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) shortly after in 1937, scientists gained an unprecedented ultrastructural view of the ...

The wiring of one insect’s brain no longer contains much uncharted territory. All of the nerve cells — and virtually every connection between them — in a larval fruit fly brain have now been ...

Researchers from the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) have uncovered the 3D structure of the ...