Peters' phalloplasty patients made his research on the human clitoris possible, as they allowed him to study their clitoral tissue under a microscope to count the exact number of nerve fibers.

However, when Erbacher looked at skin tissue under the microscope, he noticed that nerve fibers did not just grow around skin cells but, to the whole team’s surprise, tunneled straight through them.

With the invention of the microscope at the beginning ... There was, however, a tissue that seemed to belie cell theory — nervous tissue. Because of its softness and fragility, it was ...

3Scan’s robotic microscope slices the tissue samples very precisely. Something like a micro deli-slicer, Klimen explained, 3Scan’s system can derive 10,000 slices from each tissue sample.

Live-tissue experiments have revealed cellular quirks that may be specific to primates and have turned up new details about a mysterious type of nerve ... placed under a powerful microscope ...

Colorful transparent slides, mounted with slivers of nervous tissue from sacrificed ... as if it were a miniature picture frame under the lens of his microscope. With his right hand, he turned ...

Fat, blood vessels, nerve, connective tissue and ground ... off topic," deShazo told us via email. When put under the microscope, one chicken sample consisted of just 40 percent skeletal muscle ...

making it possible to view the whole animal under a microscope, and subject it to detailed laser scanning for the first time. This enabled the team to image all the nerve cell connections inside a ...