Sentences with phrase «microscopy methods»

The reactions converted nonfluorescent reactants to highly fluorescent products, allowing the researchers to watch the process unfold using high - resolution fluorescence microscopy methods.

Brunger also employs single - molecule fluorescence microscopy methods to complement his structural studies.

Other areas of instrument development include DNA sequencing, cell fractionation, light and electron microscopy methods, mass spectrometry of proteins, X-ray imaging plates, synchrotron beam - lines and automated cell micro injectors.

«This technique also later aided the development of several super-resolution microscopy methods, which earned other researchers a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2014,» says Yildiz.

Article highlights microscopy methods that show the formation of bone tissue, battery shards, and more

Development of methodology to facilitate single cell studies of structural variation, and integrating state - of - the - art microscopy methods with single cell sequencing.

Results: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have for the first time integrated microscopy methods with controlled cultivation to monitor microbial physiology in live bacterial biofilms.

The main significance of the team's new tool is that «the RAMS load frame insert enables applying axial loads while the specimen is continuously rotated, which means that we can integrate near - field and far - field high - energy diffraction microscopy methods and microtomography with in situ mechanical testing,» said Shade.

Thanks to emerging microscopy methods, plaque has become a good source of traces of food that can now be analysed.

Because of the way light waves move through hyperbolic metamaterials, they can be used as superlenses to view objects too small to be seen with other microscopy methods.

A new microscope merges different microscopy methods to increase resolution and contrast in thick biological samples.

While working on his Ph.D., Dr. Taraska investigated the processes of triggered exocytosis and endocytosis in neuroendocrine cells with high - resolution microscopy methods.

«Using different microscopy methods, we were able to gain a better understanding of the phases, compositions and crystalline structures that allow these materials to convert light into electricity more efficiently,» said Poplawsky, adding that the availability of data is limited.

With different super-resolution microscopy methods, they can even light up single molecules and their complex interactions with one another.

«We do not need to see down to the atomic scale, like many high - powered electron microscopy methods offer,» Deb said.

The newly developed STED - RICS microscopy method records rapid movements of molecules in live samples.

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a new fluorescence microscopy method: STEDD (Stimulation Emission Double Depletion) nanoscopy produces images of highest resolution with suppressed background.

Scientists have developed and implemented a new microscopy method that allows resolution of three - dimensional structures to 10 - 20 nm throughout entire cells, in samples up to 10 microns thick.

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a new fluorescence microscopy method: STEDD (Stimulation Emission Double Depletion) nanoscopy produces images of highest resolution with suppressed background.

From those measurements, the team made catalytic activity maps and used them along with the microscopy method to selectively deposit tiny quantities of a cobalt borate OEC on the nanorod hot spots.

Not exact matches

Using a method called two - photon microscopy, they routinely measure the activity of hundreds of neurons with single cell resolution.

«Moving to non-invasive and repeatable methods of nerve fiber measurements such as in vivo corneal confocal microscopy would enhance study of peripheral neuropathy by enabling early detection of damage, progression of nerve fiber deterioration, and enable assessment of therapeutic strategies in the SIV / macaque model,» explains Dr. Mankowski.

The analysis of light spectrums after interactions with material with infrared spectroscopy and microscopy allows the more precise and accurate conceptualization of research methods.

The researchers used a number of methods, including fluorescence and electron microscopy, in collaboration with Dr. Eugenia Klein of the Institute's Microscopy Unit; a unique system in Prof. Alon's lab for simulating blood vessels in a test tube; and in vivo imaging with Prof. Sussan Nourshargh of Queen Mary University of London.

The traditional methods used in materials science analysis, like high - powered electron microscopy and spectroscopy, do not combine chemical insights with the spatial resolution of IR imaging, the researchers said, so they can only provide average chemical measurements.

Because they are so small, multiple testing methods are used, including cross-polarized light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and PCR testing of the DNA of larvae in the water sample.

The researchers studied nanowires using X-ray microscopy and with this method they can pinpoint exactly how the nanowire should be designed to give the best properties.

On a study funded by the National Science Foundation and Agilent Technologies, researchers employed spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM), a label - free method, to perform localized measurements of light scattering in prostatectomy tissue microarrays.

Plowe is trying to develop surveillance methods that hit the «sweet spot,» by which he means sensitive enough to detect very low parasite loads in asymptomatic carriers — microscopy is too crude — but portable enough to use in the field.

Doctoral student Florian Vogel and Dr. Nelia Wanderka from the HZB Institute of Applied Materials have elegantly combined two methods to accomplish this: transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atom probe tomography (APT), which they carried out in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Münster.

The research was reported in the journal Nature Methods in a paper titled, «Ultrahigh - throughput single - molecule spectroscopy and spectrally resolved super-resolution microscopy,» with co-authors Zhengyang Zhang, Samuel Kenny, Margaret Hauser, and Wan Li, all of UC Berkeley.

«New X-Ray microscopy technique images nanoscale workings of rechargeable batteries: Method could help researchers improve battery performance.»

To carry out the study, the team visualised a number of motors from different species of bacteria using a variant of a method called cryo - election microscopy, whose pioneers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year.

The reported femtosecond time resolution of four - dimensional (4D) electron microscopy represents an advance of 10 orders of magnitude over that of conventional EELS methods.

For this reason, the KIT researchers combined the RICS method with STED microscopy (stimulated emission depletion microscopy).

«This method allowed us to drastically expand the previously available data, acquired through scanning electron microscopy; it also made possible to characterize surface patterns directly, not based upon analysis of metal replicas.

The new method combines two types of microscopy.

In order to track the movements of biological particles in a cell, scientists at Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center have developed a powerful analysis method for live cell microscopy images.

Dr. Taraska's lab studies the structural cell biology of exocytosis and endocytosis with advanced imaging methods including live cell microscopy, superresolution fluorescence, and electron microscopy.

Betzig and Moerner, working separately, developed a different method known as single - molecule localization microscopy.

In 1988, he became a principal investigator at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he extended his thesis work on near - field optical microscopy, the first method to break the diffraction barrier.

In Nature Methods they describe how their software predicts the future cell type based on microscopy images.

For this work, Goodell and colleagues including his collaborator Jody Jellison, now director of the Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment at UMass Amherst, used a suite of investigative methods including small angle neutron scattering (SANS), sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to fully describe the process.

The study examined the small - scale mechanical behaviour of teeth from limpets using atomic force microscopy, a method used to pull apart materials all the way down to the level of the atom.

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.

A key component of the method is two - photon microscopy, used to generate a small point of light deep inside the sample.

Using a variety of methods, including nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, calorimetry and electron microscopy, the researchers evaluated the fibers» structural and mechanical characteristics.

The research team is now exploring additional biological applications for the new system and is working to extend the method to other microscope modalities, such as confocal microscopy.

Neutron scattering is non-destructive, unlike electron microscopy, another common method used to investigate porous materials.

The research combined electron microscopy, perfectly distilled proteins, and a method of chemical freezing to isolate specific moments at the start of replication.