Sentences with phrase «electron microscopy techniques»

Utilized light and electron microscopy techniques to compare the morphological development of the motor neurons in the mutant with that of the wild - type animal.

2 - year postdoctoral position in soil organic matter characterization using scattering and electron microscopy techniques (PA2018 / 906)

They conclude with a look at how the future abilities of these two electron microscopy techniques will provide even an greater understanding how materials form.

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.

Researchers aim to answer these questions using cutting - edge electron microscopy techniques in combination with molecular and biochemical approaches.

Utilizes advanced electron microscopy techniques to study nanoscale structure and defects that determine the utility of functional materials, such as superconductors, multiferroics, and other energy related systems including thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, and batteries.

Idrobo adds that new electron microscopy techniques can complement existing methods, such as x-ray spectroscopy and neutron scattering, that are the gold standard in studying magnetism but are limited in their spatial resolution.

The researchers used an ion beam to slice off thin sections from the samples, and they used electron microscopy techniques to image the samples and perform elemental analyses.

The researchers studied the diamond samples using a combination of advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques at EPFL's Interdisciplinary Centre for Electron Microscopy.

«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.

Next, they used an advanced electron microscopy technique that tilts samples in an electron beam and provides structural information in 3D.

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.

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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.»

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.

Shim and his research team combined X-ray techniques in the synchrotron radiation facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Labs and atomic resolution electron microscopy at ASU to determine what causes unusual flow patterns in rocks that lie 600 miles and more deep within the Earth.

SAY FREEZE Scientists used an imaging technique called cryo - electron microscopy to snap the first close - ups of lithium dendrites, revealing them as long, needlelike crystals.

Dr. Michael Man, a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Dani's Unit, combined the techniques of UV light pulses and electron microscopy in order to see electrons moving inside a solar cell.

The exchange lists more than 1000 experts in techniques including sequencing, electron microscopy and mass spectrometry.

Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, Joachim Frank of Columbia University and Richard Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, won for their contributions to the development of the technique, called cryo - electron microscopy, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced October 4.

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.

They then analyzed the shells with electron microscopy and other high - resolution imaging techniques.

Applying electron microscopy to biology was a challenge because the technique is done in a vacuum, which can dry out and distort the shape of proteins and other biological molecules.

Called cryo - electron microscopy, the imaging technique freezes biological molecules in place and reveals their inner workings.

Scientists used techniques such as scanning electron microscopy and x-ray imaging to investigate species» bodies and feeding mechanisms.

Acquiring images using modern techniques such as light sheet fluorescence, confocal, or electron microscopy creates a significant data stream.

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

«Basically, this approach enables us to minimize the number of samples that need to be measured with expensive techniques such as atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy,» Epps says.

Using electron microscopy tools combined with analytical spectroscopy techniques, the researchers were able to examine the surface of bioprocessed Martian regolith simulants in detail.

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).

To make their determination, researchers used a combination of analytical techniques, including atom probe tomography, transmission electron microscopy and electron beam induced current.

An international team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used advanced techniques in electron microscopy to show how the ratio of materials that make up a lithium - ion battery electrode affects its structure at the atomic level, and how the surface is very different from the rest of the material.

«This is a perfect example of why the multiple imaging and spectroscopy techniques available in electron microscopy make it such an indispensable and versatile tool in renewable energy research.»

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.

Current standard techniques to visualize, quantify, and characterize EVs are electron microscopy, nanoparticle tracking analyses, and dynamic light scattering.

And its ability to show the shape of dendrites and trace neuronal processes provides contextual information unavailable through imaging techniques such as electron microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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

«New quantum dot technique combines best of optical and electron microscopy.»

The ORNL - Uppsala team developed the technique by rethinking a cornerstone of electron microscopy known as aberration correction.

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.

The TSRI laboratories of Professor Erica Ollmann Saphire and Assistant Professor Andrew Ward are studying the structures of these antibodies using techniques called electron microscopy, which creates high - resolution images by hitting samples with electrons, and X-ray crystallography, which determines the atomic structure of crystalline arrays of proteins.

By using a powerful imaging technique known as cryo - electron microscopy, however, Campbell and her colleagues were able to figure out exactly how the antibiotic throws a wrench into RNAP.

The different types of motion of the plasmons were characterized using a microscopy technique called electron energy - loss spectroscopy (EELS), whose very fine spatial and spectral resolution enabled the researchers to propose a new theoretical model of plasmon behavior.

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.

The authors also employed other advanced imaging techniques — including electron microscopy and super-resolution imaging — to discover that the formation, and subsequent loosening, of these contacts is regulated by a lysosomal protein called RAB7.

Using confocal laser microscopy and electron microscopy, coupled with the use of advanced synchrotron techniques at the Swiss Light Source, in Villigen (Switzerland), and at the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon, Canada, the team was able to show that not only the morphology of microbial twisted structures is preserved after long incubations under diagenetic conditions, but also organic remnants can be detected in the mineralized twisted structures.

«We analyzed the structure of the buffer layer by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and other techniques.

The researchers used electron microscopy and other imaging techniques to view thousands of cells from the liver tissue of lean and obese mice.