Sentences with phrase «d microscopy technique»

«Down to the quantum dot: Ultrahigh - resolution 3 - D microscopy technique for electric fields.»

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Forthcoming workshops cover techniques as varied as «molecular and genetic tools for the analysis of medaka and zebrafish development» and «cryo - electron microscopy and 3 - D image reconstruction.»

«At the very microscopic level,» he says, «we have developed techniques like two - photon microscopy, which allows extremely detailed examinations of structures and processes within cells.»

Over the last half - century, protein structure data from imaging techniques like X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy has mounted, and protein structure databases store at - the - ready information on sequencing and structure.

Scientists would then be able to look at the slices with microscopy and other techniques to learn precisely what the brain looked like, right down to the cellular level.

This achievement has been made possible by using high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy, a technique brought to the CNIO thanks to Óscar Llorca, director of the Structural Biology Programme and lead author on the paper published in Nature Communications.

COOL ADVANCE Cryo - electron microscopy, an imaging technique that involves flash freezing molecules to see their structures, has won its inventors the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has given scientists the ability to image nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery particles as they charge and discharge.

Backman has been studying cell abnormalities at the nanoscale in many different types of cancers, using an optical technique he pioneered called partial wave spectroscopic (PWS) microscopy.

The researchers have also been able to couple their new meso - level imaging technique with extremely detailed electron microscopy.

«Advances in imaging techniques, such as 2 - photon microscopy, have allowed us to observe the adhesion process and characterise the two components.

This work, with the assistance of soil scientists at the University of KwaZulu - Natal, has involved a suite of techniques, including x-ray fluorescence (to provide quantitative data on minor and trace element composition), x-ray diffraction (to reveal crystal structure and parent rock types of paint ingredients), and environmental scanning electron microscopy (to yield qualitative data on elements present).

Much like in an old tube television where a beam of electrons moves over a phosphor screen to create images, the new microscopy technique works by scanning a beam of electrons over a sample that has been coated with specially engineered quantum dots.

«We studied a range of authentic microfossils using the same transmission electron microscopy technique and in all cases these reveal coherent, rounded envelopes of carbon having dimensions consistent with their origin from cell walls and sheaths.

Two research teams have independently developed light microscopy techniques that resolve objects on the nanometer scale, one of which is described online in Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1127344).

The new technique, dubbed photoactivated localization microscopy, currently has a resolution similar to that of electron microscopy.

It's not reruns of «The Jetsons,» but researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscopy technique that uses a process similar to how an old tube television produces a picture — cathodoluminescence — to image nanoscale features.

Cancer Virus made me reflect on just how quickly biology has progressed: in the 1960s, electron microscopy was in its infancy, and DNA - based techniques for characterising what might be lurking in tissue simply didn't exist.

Furthermore, so as to understand the chemical and physical nature of the shaping process, standard characterization techniques (spectroscopy and electron microscopy) have been employed, as well as new theoretical models and advanced computer simulation techniques.

To find answers, Columbia researchers developed a new microscopy technique that allows for the direct tracking of fatty acids after they've been absorbed into living cells.

Although SIM and other superresolution techniques are pushing to spatial resolutions as high as 20 nanometers, they do not have the field of view of a technique like Bessel beam microscopy; they can only see a very small area, and imaging a larger area with those techniques takes a long time.

A team led by Professor Theo Lasser, the head of the Laboratory of Biomedical Optics (LOB) at EPFL has now made strides to address the issue by developing a technique that can perform both 3D super-resolution microscopy and fast 3D phase imaging in a single instrument.

But now, using a technique called structured illumination, the EMBL team has managed to subtract out this interference, making light sheet microscopy even more powerful.

Because cement is a heterogeneous material, made up of multiple components, Shahrin used a scanning electron microscopy / X-ray technique to find the areas in cement samples that had the highest ratio of C - S - H relative to other constituent materials.

To determine the structural and chemical composition of the soft tissues Lindgren collected and see if the fossil sea turtle did have a dark colored shell, the researchers subjected the sample to a selection of high - resolution analytical techniques, including field emission gun scanning electron microscopy (FEG - SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), in situ immunohistochemistry, time - of - flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF - SIMS), and infrared (IR) microspectroscopy.

Her team's research opens up new possibilities in the nascent field of 3 - D nanomagnetics, which has evolved through recent discoveries of new magnetic effects at the atomic level, as well as advances in characterization methods such as in the X-ray magnetic microscopy technique used by the group.

Certain microscopy techniques would reveal only the particles, while others would distort the 3D structures.

The team has succeeded not only in deciphering what is happening in the cell interior but also, using a revolutionary live - cell microscopy technique, the scientists have observed for the first time individual receptors at work in intact cells.

She and her research group recently demonstrated CLAIRE's imaging capabilities by applying the technique to aluminum nanostructures and polymer films that could not have been directly imaged with electron microscopy.

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and their international collaborators have developed a novel fluorescence microscopy technique that for the first time shows where and when proteins are produced.

A new technique enables 3 - D visualization of chromatin (DNA plus associated proteins) structure and organization within a cell nucleus (purple, bottom left) by painting the chromatin with a metal cast and imaging it with electron microscopy (EM).

Schopf used several techniques to analyze the fossils, including Raman spectroscopy — which enables scientists to look inside rocks to determine their composition and chemistry — and confocal laser scanning microscopy — which renders fossils in 3 - D.

By parsing the cells with slices of laser light and then correcting for any obstruction with the same AO technique astronomers use to correct blurriness in observations of stars, the scientists have come up with a microscopy technique that looks like an artistic rendering.

If you question whether microscopy really should be considered part of the future of diffraction, let me point out that many of the algorithms and other techniques for turning collections of cryoEM images into three - dimensional structures had their origins in X-ray diffraction.

She has extensive research experience in the development and application of novel electron microscopy techniques for energy materials, such as lithium ion battery materials and fuel cell catalysts.

Scientists have combined robotic techniques with atomic force microscopy to achieve understanding of how skin falls apart at the nanoscale.

We have studied the mechanism of RSC - induced chromatin remodeling by using high resolution microscopy and state of the art biochemistry techniques.

The invention of atomic force microscopy has spawned a wide variety of measurement and manipulation techniques invaluable for many purposes.

For this latest study of DNA nanostructures, Ren used an electron - beam study technique called cryo - electron microscopy (cryo - EM) to examine frozen DNA - nanogold samples, and used IPET to reconstruct 3 - D images from samples stained with heavy metal salts.

In another demonstration of the ripple effect created by a single, RPB - supported investigation, researchers, using a new microscopy technique focused on eye tissues damaged by scarring in diabetic patients, have...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and the 30th anniversary since the first paper in atomic force microscopy (AFM), Nanotechnology ™ has been organising a focus collection with guest editors Franz Giessibl, Rodolfo Miranda and Johannes Barthes to collate some of the latest cutting - edge progress developing and exploiting these scanning probe techniques.

Recently, researchers figured out a way to modify a popular electron microscopy technique to look at a mix of materials, even those that would appear invisible to standard imaging techniques.

Similar to light microscopy, there have been significant advances in tissue clearing techniques during this century.

Although the modern explosion in light microscopy techniques has provided biologists with a host of tools and opened doors to many great insights, it can be overwhelming to a novice microscopist.

Due to its unrivaled contrast, fluorescence imaging has emerged as the dominant light microscopy contrast technique in modern biology (1).

Recent progress in phylogenomics, and the implementation of modern molecular, microscopy, and cell biology techniques in a handful of spiralian model systems have made that possible.

Compared to previous years, the course has an updated program of lectures involving the latest microscopy imaging techniques, such as super-resolution light microscopy (SIM / PALM, STED, STORM) or Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM).

«For more than a hundred years it was thought that there was a physical limit to the resolution of microscopy but these techniques have pushed that limit far beyond what anyone thought possible.

The team has systematically validated the fidelity, accuracy, reliability, reproducibility and versatility (for many cell types) of this method, using various other techniques such as confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, Western blotting and Raman spectroscopy.

Berkeley Lab researchers, working at the Molecular Foundry, have invented a technique called «CLAIRE» that extends the incredible resolution of electron microscopy to the non-invasive nanoscale imaging of soft matter, including biomolecules, liquids, polymers, gels and foams.