Sentences with phrase «microscope techniques»

Another group, using improved microscope techniques, got the same result.

Not exact matches

His technique uses three microscopes in succession to magnify the sample, capture light from the tilted plane, and sweep the light sheet.

According to John White, co-inventor of the scanning confocal microscope and Skop's Ph.D. adviser, Skop was the first to apply the modern techniques used to study proteins and genes to understanding the midbody.

Her team decided to make a picture using a technique dreamed up 30 years ago that can be thought of as a quantum microscope.

By analysing the artefacts with a camera and microscopes, they were able to compare the manufacture techniques and wear to previous discoveries and to attempts to replicate this technology in the laboratory.

Veeraraghavan said SAVI leans on work by the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, which developed the Fourier ptychography technique that allows microscopes to resolve images beyond the physical limitations of their optics.

Casadio's team used a variety of techniques to determine the palettes, including conventional methods like investigation with stereo microscopes as well as more sophisticated techniques like micro-X-ray fluorescence.

This can be useful for everything from using a simple light microscope to watch cells divide to using light - based techniques to drive genetic and cellular actions.

Then, they looked at pairs of proteins in the complex using super-resolution microscopy — a special kind of microscopy technique that can discern much smaller things than a traditional optical microscope can — to systematically identify when each protein disassembled.

The following images capture the beauty of a world measured in atoms rather than inches, made visible with specialized microscopes and fabrication techniques and all made possible with NSF funding.

The JILA method can be applied to optical trapping techniques, atomic force microscopes and super-resolution imaging.

Using their technique, the team imaged an array of tiny gold dots with a resolution of 75 nanometers — not anywhere near the resolution of top - notch crystalline samples, which can be hundreds of times finer, but already better than the best optical microscopes.

Health: Combined Optical and Magnetic Resonance Microscope - «Studying cells in real time» Dr. Robert Wind, Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA helped develop a combined microscope that can study live cells at the same time with two completely different microscopic tMicroscope - «Studying cells in real time» Dr. Robert Wind, Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA helped develop a combined microscope that can study live cells at the same time with two completely different microscopic tmicroscope that can study live cells at the same time with two completely different microscopic techniques.

Park's SICM systems also have AFM and optical microscopes built in, so scientists can view cells with all three techniques and compare or superimpose the resulting images.

But as lens - making techniques improved and microscopes became more widely available, others got in on the act and they became something of a craze.

Diagnosing cancer today usually involves various imaging techniques, examining tissue samples under a microscope, or testing cells for proteins or genetic material.

To enhance the spatial resolution of their microscope they put a single carbon monoxide molecule on the tip, a technique called non-contact AFM first used by Gerhard Meyer and collaborators at IBM Zurich to image molecules several years ago.

They identified a total of 164 barnacle larvae under a dissection microscope, extracted DNA from the larvae, and used standard techniques to sequence mitochondrial COI genes, often called a barcode sequence.

They proposed a new way to study a cuprate, one that no other group had tried: a powerful imaging technique developed by Davis, called sublattice imaging - which is performed using a specialized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of determining the electronic structure in different subsets of the atoms in the crystal, the so - called sublattices.

Specifically, the MPI / Wyss Institute team developed the technique for «Spinning Disk Confocal» (SDC) microscopes that detect fluorescence signals from an entire plane all at once by sensing them through a rotating disc with multiple pinholes.

From this collaboration the teams developed the LOCO - EFA technique which involves decomposing two - dimensional cell shapes — the shapes you can see under a microscope — into a series of ellipses.

Then they ran those batteries through many charge / discharge cycles, took them apart and examined the electrodes with an electron microscope and an X-ray technique that reveals their morphology and chemical composition.

This paradigm in microbiology stems from the time when bacterial species were mostly identified under the microscope with classic techniques that are limited in their determination.

In this technique, a transmission electron microscope is used to record images of a sub-micrometre-sized region from different angles in quick succession.

Using a combination of advanced microscope imaging and computer analysis, the new technique can give pathologists and researchers precise information without using chemical stains or dyes.

A technique, detailed in the September 16 issue of Nature, could be used in electron microscopes as part of the continuing quest to scale down the size of electronic chips.

The technique is «very important,» he says, because it will extend the capabilities of conventional electron microscopes and should allow «atom - by - atom magnetic analysis in the near future.»

The technique allows more information to be harvested from fluid, tissue and other samples, but not everyone has access to an optical microscope that can use fluorescence.

The technique takes advantage of electrostatic forces to stretch a taut piece of DNA onto a glass microscope slide.

Another far more arduous and painstaking technique involves dragging and placing atoms one by one using an atomic force microscope or a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), both of which are sensitive enough to move single atoms around on a surface with a fine tip.

Researchers at the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences at the University of Granada in Spain created this pine needle — like structure in the lab using a rapid - freeze technique inside an electron microscope.

Rather than the light used in a traditional microscope, this technique uses focused beams of electrons to illuminate a sample and form images with atomic resolution.

Betzig was the developer of a technique called near - field scanning optical micro-scopy which can achieve a much greater magnification than conventional optical microscopes.

The technique is extremely powerful for nanomaterials characterization, but if used conventionally, it does not allow for active material manipulation inside the microscope.

Church's technique employs a microscope and other off - the - shelf equipment that use bursts of different fluorescent colors to distinguish the bases.

The technique, developed by two separate research groups, one at Princeton led by Thomas Gregor, associate professor of physics and the Lewis - Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, and the other led by Nathalie Dostatni at the Curie Institute in Paris, involves placing fluorescent tags on RNA molecules to make them visible under the microscope.

O'Shea's team called the technique, which combines their chromatin dye with electron - microscope tomography, ChromEMT.

To perform this precise technique, we use one of the smallest microscopes in the world.

The technique, which uses a heated atomic force microscope (AFM) tip to produce patterns, could facilitate high - density, low - cost production of complex ferroelectric structures for energy harvesting arrays, sensors and actuators in nano - electromechanical systems (NEMS) and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).

Other common research techniques may require a collection of thousands near - identical objects, viewed with an electron microscope, to compile a single, averaged 3 - D structure.

Using a novel microscope that combines standard through - the - lens viewing with a technique called scatterfield imaging, the NIST team accurately measured patterned features on a silicon wafer that were 30 times smaller than the wavelength of light (450 nanometers) used to examine them.

The use of a scanning transmission electron microscope, which passes an electron beam through a bulk material, sets the approach apart from lithography techniques that only pattern or manipulate a material's surface.

Furthermore, the microscope will be capable of performing live - cell super-resolution imaging through structured illumination microscopy (SIM) and Super-Resolution Radial Fluctuations (SRRF); for fixed cells resolutions on the scale of tens of nanometres will be achievable using single molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) techniques.

In our work, we have overcome this limitation with novel microscope technology that can observe the activity of the fly's entire brain forty times faster than previous techniques.

Using a technique called smFISH (single - molecule fluorescence in situ hybridization), the team attached dozens of small fluorescently labeled probes to each molecule of specific messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA), which causes these molecules to light up under the microscope.

Nanocombinatorics: The new analytical method utilizes a technique invented at Northwestern called polymer pen lithography, where basically a rubber stamp having as many as 11 million sharp pyramids is mounted on a transparent glass backing and precisely controlled by an atomic force microscope to generate desired patterns on a surface.

These developments in microscopy coupled with techniques that make tissues transparent are enabling microscopes to visualize the cellular architecture of whole tissues in 3D with unprecedented detail.

Traditional observational techniques require using microscopes to view ultra-thin slices of tissue — messy business when trying to reconstruct three - dimensional structures in something as thick as a human brain.

Inventions like the scanning tunneling microscope, the atomic force microscope, single - molecule fluorescence techniques in biology and, going back further, the invention of scanning electron microscopes and transmission electron microscopes, has really revolutionized what can be done across a vast number of fields.

He is using cutting edge microscopes and techniques to study individual connections - synapses - between neurons in HD mice.