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Athens, GA (OBBeC)- According to a report from the University of Georgia, a team that includes UGA engineer Peter Kner has developed a microscope that is capable of live imaging at double the resolution of...

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David Monchaud, a chemist at the University of Burgundy in France, was drawn to multiphoton imaging for its precision, sensitivity, and ability to image living cells.

Whereas analyses of the brain were once limited to autopsy samples at the time of a person's death, advances in an imaging technique known as positron emission tomography (PET) now enable researchers to detect amyloid and tau in the brains of living people.

At the moment the only way to accurately measure amyloid in a living person is either via costly positron emission tomography imaging (PET scan) or by sampling cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with a lumbar puncture, or spinal tap.

Using data from brain imaging techniques that enable visualising the brain's activity, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a Parisian ENT surgeon have managed to decipher brain reorganisation processes at work when people start to lose their hearing, and thus predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant among people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult life.

To surmount this hurdle, Dr. Hodgson and his colleagues in the Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center at Einstein devised a new fluorescent protein biosensor that, combined with live - cell imaging, revealed exactly when and where Rac1 is activated inside cancer cells.

Earlier, for his Ph.D., he used his physics training to study biological interactions at the molecular resolution — but for his postdoc he changed approaches dramatically, turning to cell biology and applying his skills to the development of high - resolution functional imaging of DNA transcription in living cells.

These results, along with imaging technologies that capture pathogens in the living host, form a «scaffold» for future research into Lyme disease, says Joseph Breen, bacteriology program officer at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which funded the work.

At Actelion, employees are increasingly motivated by visualization technologies, such as automated live - cell imaging and high content screening, that offer new means to view and quantify cellular, even subcellular, processes.

A new brain imaging study from MIT and Harvard Medical School may lead to a screen that could identify children at high risk of developing depression later in life.

Scientists are taking medical imaging research and drug discovery to a new level by developing a molecular imaging system that combines several advanced technologies for all - in - one imaging of both tissue models and live subjects, say presenters at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (imaging research and drug discovery to a new level by developing a molecular imaging system that combines several advanced technologies for all - in - one imaging of both tissue models and live subjects, say presenters at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (imaging system that combines several advanced technologies for all - in - one imaging of both tissue models and live subjects, say presenters at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (imaging of both tissue models and live subjects, say presenters at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (Imaging (SNMMI).

The researchers used high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) at the Museum's Microscopy and Imaging Facility, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Biomaterials Science Center of the University of Basel in Switzerland to scan the skulls of 21 felid specimens, including seven modern cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) from distinct populations, a closely related extinct cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) that lived in the Pleistocene between about 2.6 million and 126,000 years ago, and more than a dozen other living felid species.

A recent imaging scan hints at hidden chambers that could offer insights into questions surrounding the life and death of the boy pharaoh and his place in Egyptian history

This type of mobile thermal imaging could be used for monitoring breathing problems in elderly people living alone, people suspected of having sleep apnea or babies at risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

These findings were confirmed by two - photon imaging of neurons in the brains of living mice by the lab of collaborator Yi Zuo, PhD, a neuroscientist at UC Santa Cruz, as well as electrophysiological recordings from neurons in brain slices by the lab of collaborator Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry at UCSF.

The observation was validated using magnetic resonance imaging of live study participants by Eric Halgren, PhD, professor in the Department of Neurosciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and colleagues.

The fluorescence label on the probe also allows it to be detected via high - resolution imaging techniques in tissues and organs at depths of up to one millimeter, which enables researchers to effectively monitor the in vivo enzymatic activities of MAO - B in living systems.

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, in collaboration with Osaka City University and Kansai University of Welfare Sciences, have used functional PET imaging to show that levels of neuroinflammation, or inflammation of the nervous system, are higher in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome than in healthy people.

Using a technique that creates high - resolution, three - dimensional images, Guerinot and her colleague Tracy Punshon, an expert at imaging metals moving through living systems, found arsenic concentrated in the grain's nutrient - rich outer layers, which are polished off in the processing of white rice but remain in brown rice.

Other advances that gave the researchers a clearer view of the signaling mechanisms reported in Science include CRISPR gene editing, live - cell imaging techniques, and more powerful ways to look at all components of a protein complex.

The significance of the team's approach is that it «enables imaging of live cells in a high - throughput manner at a time resolution at which all biologically relevant dynamics appear static,» he said.

The authors of this study combined live cell imaging with electron microscopy to observe Trichoplax feeding behavior at scales ranging from the whole animal to subcellular.

It doesn't hurt that Michael Phelps at UCLA is coinventor of PET imaging and was a pioneer in realizing that what had been an abstruse mathematical tool — the Radon transform — allows three - dimensional reconstruction of a living brain.

«Early detection is critical to saving lives and lowering costs,» said senior author Emily F. Conant, MD, chief of Breast Imaging at Penn Medicine.

Exploratorium, San Francisco Study live specimens, like mouse stem cells as they progress toward becoming beating heart cells, at the high - resolution Microscope Imaging Station.

The new live imaging approach was developed by a team of researchers at the University of Miami (UM).

Nagoya, Japan — Dr. Daisuke Maruyama and Professor Tetsuya Higashiyama at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI - ITbM) of Nagoya University and the JST - ERATO Higashiyama Live - Holonics Project along with their international team have shown by live - cell imaging techniques that flowering plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana undergo a cell to cell fusion to prevent the attraction of the second pollen tube after fertilization has occurLive - Holonics Project along with their international team have shown by live - cell imaging techniques that flowering plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana undergo a cell to cell fusion to prevent the attraction of the second pollen tube after fertilization has occurlive - cell imaging techniques that flowering plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana undergo a cell to cell fusion to prevent the attraction of the second pollen tube after fertilization has occurred.

In a new study reported in Cell, an international group of plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University and other research institutes, have examined the ovules of plant cells by live - imaging to reveal a novel cell - elimination system based on an unusual cell fusion.

He's also eager to return full time to his HHMI - supported lab at the University of California, Berkeley, which has shifted its work on gene regulation from wet biochemistry to imaging single molecules in living cells.

A new microscope allows three - dimensional imaging of living systems at very high resolution in real time.

In their March publication in Scientific Reports, researchers at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and Kanazawa University describe how they have built the new AFM system optimized for live - cell imaging.

«If they were looking for living people, they would be using infrared imaging,» says forensic scientist Lawrence Kobilinsky, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

«This is a major step beyond what we understood about this moon before, and it demonstrates the kind of deep - dive discoveries we can make with long - lived orbiter missions to other planets,» said co-author Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado, and visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

The researchers used this live - imaging technique to study fly embryos at a key stage in their development, approximately two hours after the onset of embryonic life where the genes undergo fast and furious transcription for about one hour.

To answer this question, a study presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2018 used real - time, single - cell imaging to make movies of live cancer cells.

High - end microscopes, high - speed cameras and other advanced imaging systems give members of the RISD community access to living and non-living specimens at multiple scales and provide an engaging platform for examining myriad connections between artistic and scientific study.

Working in collaboration with the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, Michael S. Placzek, PhD, focuses his research on studying the chemistry and pharmacology of opioids in the living brain using positron emission tomography (PET).

«We are now able to monitor, in living synapses, in time - lapse imaging, changes at the molecular level that underlie the initiation as well as the stabilization of this neuron growth with learning and memory storage,» he says.

7 Imaging Gene Expression in Living Cells at the Single - Molecule Level.

To this end, we are developing a new multi-scale live imaging approach to characterize nuclear organization dynamics at the single cell level based on the simultaneous characterization of both the local dynamics of RNA polymerases and transcription factors and the large scale behavior of chromatin.

Currently, she is using imaging techniques to explore the effects of glucose on brain responses to food cues in children who are at - risk for developing obesity and / or diabetes later in life.

In a new paper published online today in Nature Chemistry («On - surface generation and imaging of arynes by atomic force microscopy»), scientists from IBM Research and CIQUS at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, have confirmed the existence and characterized the structure of arynes, a family of highly - reactive short - lived molecules which was first suggested 113 years ago.

Combined with spinning confocal, it enables Super Resolution to be achieved at high speed and low photo - toxicity, making it the ideal solution for live high resoluion cell imaging.

Detection of the signal via an electron multiplication CCD camera allows image capture at speeds to hundreds of frames per second as demanded today by live cell imaging.

«This experimental approach appears to combine the most attractive element of treatment, eradication of the cancer, with the most appealing element of active surveillance, maintaining quality of life,» said Aytekin Oto, MD, professor of radiology and chief of abdominal imaging at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Researchers at Columbia University have made a significant step toward breaking the so - called «color barrier» of light microscopy for biological systems, allowing for much more comprehensive, system - wide labeling and imaging of a greater number of biomolecules in living cells and tissues than is currently attainable.

Diagnostic imaging aids in saving lives by giving health care providers an inside look at the body to...

In the worm, we are developing tools to monitor neuromodulation at cellular resolution in an intact brain and using them to directly measure endogenous peptide release and binding to receptors on identified neurons using real - time approaches for imaging neuropeptide signaling, in order to understand the dynamics of this process in a living animal.

In 1990 he announced his invention of two - photon laser scanning fluorescence microscopy, which allows imaging of living tissue at greater depths and with less unwanted background fluorescence.

No matter whether you are a sports photographer at the Super Bowl, a medical technologist taking an x-ray, or a biologist imaging the smallest structures of life; the key to a great image is contrast.