Sentences with phrase «microscopy technique works»

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.

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For the current study, working in the CU Cancer Center Advanced Light Microscopy Core, co-authors Dominik Stitch, PhD, and Radu Moldovan, PhD, implemented a new technique known intravital multiphoton in vivo microscopy that enabled the team to watch fluorescent - tagged liposomes in real - time after injection.

Using a relatively new microscopy technique called atom probe tomography, their work produced the first - ever three - dimensional maps showing the positions of atoms critical in the decay process.

The work reported in Soft Matter relies on a technique, holographic video microscopy, which was developed in Grier's lab at NYU in 2007.

In her 4 years at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, Laura Glish, a 2006 graduate, worked on collaborative projects in two different laboratories and explored a variety of experimental techniques, from atomic force microscopy to synthetic chemistry and molecular modeling.

The research involved Professor Frederic Meunier's laboratory at QBI, where super-resolution microscopy techniques enabled the researchers to understand how the anaesthetic worked on single cells.

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).

In this role, she works with many collaborators to facilitate implementing superresolution microscopy into their research programs as well as developing novel techniques for microbial live cell imaging.

The scientists explored how the eyes are made and how well they work using high - resolution microscopy and x-ray techniques, as well as computer modeling.

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.

I was working mainly in the fields of electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry, and the research plan for my yearlong stay at the training site, drawn up before I left for Germany, was to extend my use of these techniques.

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.

Unlike atomic force microscopy, microfluidics is a high - throughput screening technique, but additional work is required to assess the efficiency of this type of biophysical - based sorting for stem cell enrichment.

They are working on the use of an established medical imaging technique called optical coherence microscopy (OCM)-- most commonly used in ophthalmology — to analyze breast tissue to produce computer - aided diagnoses.

She uses a new ultra-fast microscopy technique to record the activity in the whole fly brain and works closely with theoretical neuroscientists to analyze the data and model network activity.

We work across disciplines and use a variety of techniques including microfluidics, standard microscopies (electron, optical, fluorescence, confocal), spectroscopies (fluorescence, UV, CD), scattering techniques (X-ray, light), protein expression and characterization and cell - free gene expression to investigate the utility of coacervate microdroplets as robust reaction compartments and cellular mimics.

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.

Francesco Saverio Pavone is directing a research group working in the field of biophotonics on single molecule biophysics, microscopy imaging - spectroscopy techniques, biomedical imaging, laser manipulation of bio-samples.

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