Sentences with phrase «microscopy techniques at»

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

Not exact matches

«At the very microscopic level,» he says, «we have developed techniques like two - photon microscopy, which allows extremely detailed examinations of structures and processes within cells.»

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.

«We applied a new technique called X-ray fluorescence microscopy — it looks at elemental composition,» said Marshall.

Scientists would then be able to look at the slices with microscopy and other techniques to learn precisely what the brain looked like, right down to the cellular level.

Additionally, they used a microscopy technique that allowed them to capture high - resolution images at different depths within the biofilms, revealing details of their three - dimensional structures.

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.

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

The technique, called superresolution single - molecule fluorescence microscopy, recently helped scientists at the University of Manchester in England track natural killer (NK) cells, which help destroy cancer and viruses.

Mike Miller, a microscopy expert at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee is impressed with the technique.

An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has given scientists the ability to image nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery particles as they charge and discharge.

As ICREA Prof. at ICFO Valerio Pruneri comments «the device means a major step forward for light microscopy techniques, especially for microarray platforms since it could definitely be used as a point - of - care tool in the diagnosis and treatment of major diseases such as Sepsis, a critical area where fast and accurate results can translate into life changing health outcomes for individuals.

Backman has been studying cell abnormalities at the nanoscale in many different types of cancers, using an optical technique he pioneered called partial wave spectroscopic (PWS) microscopy.

Suchita Nadkarni, an immunologist at Queen Mary University of London, used a technique called confocal microscopy to snap individual photos of nine mouse placentas.

To see what happens to the calcite when it is destabilized, researchers used a technique called X-ray reflection interface microscopy (XRIM) at the APS.

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.

This allowed the researchers to blow random puffs of air at their faces, causing them to blink, and to use a non-invasive microscopy technique to look at how the relevant Purkinje cells respond.

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).

Described in a study published in the journal Nature Communications, this novel approach uses high - speed atomic force microscopy (AFM) combined with a CRISPR - based chemical barcoding technique to map DNA nearly as accurately as DNA sequencing while processing large sections of the genome at a much faster rate.

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.

The breakthrough came with a new imaging technique, dual - resonance - frequency - enhanced electrostatic force microscopy (DREEM), which was developed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chemist and co-author Dorothy Erie, former UNC and NC State postdoctoral researchers Dong Wu and Parminder Kaur, and was featured earlier this year in Molecular Cell.

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.

A team led by Professor Theo Lasser, the head of the Laboratory of Biomedical Optics (LOB) at EPFL has now made strides to address the issue by developing a technique that can perform both 3D super-resolution microscopy and fast 3D phase imaging in a single instrument.

«It's a powerful example of what can be learned through combining state of the art microscopy techniques with predictions from advanced computational approaches,» says James LeBeau, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at NC State, co-author of the paper, and the creator of the revolving STEM technique.

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.

Her team's research opens up new possibilities in the nascent field of 3 - D nanomagnetics, which has evolved through recent discoveries of new magnetic effects at the atomic level, as well as advances in characterization methods such as in the X-ray magnetic microscopy technique used by the group.

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.

Throughout, we established the performance advantages of lattice light - sheet microscopy compared with previous techniques and highlighted phenomena that, when seen at increased spatiotemporal detail, may hint at previously unknown biological mechanisms.

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.

In the current study, the researchers used high - affinity antibodies to «label» the cannabinoid receptors so they could be seen using various microscopy techniques, including electron microscopy, which allowed very detailed visualization at individual synapses, or gaps between nerve cells.

In the study published this week in the journal Science, the research team described how they enhanced an existing imaging technique, called scanning tunneling microscopy, to capture signals from the Majorana particle at both ends of an atomically thin iron wire stretched on the surface of a crystal of lead.

Group leader Eric Stach discusses the electron microscopy instrumentation and techniques that his group uses to study the structure and chemistry of materials at the atomic scale.

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and their international collaborators have developed a novel fluorescence microscopy technique that for the first time shows where and when proteins are produced.

Jacques Dubochet was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017, for using vitrified water to prepare biological samples for electron microscopy; a technique that is still at the heart of cryo - electron microscopy.

I am an experimentalist, and I use ultrahigh - resolution ion - and electron - microscopy techniques, including focused - ion - beam scanning - electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, to determine the composition and structure of these materials at scales ranging from millimeters down to the atomic.

In investigating the new technique, the researchers at UIUC were diligent in their testing of the formed graphene via electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and electrical resistance measurement to confirm that it maintained its shape and consistency after forming.

Scientists have combined robotic techniques with atomic force microscopy to achieve understanding of how skin falls apart at the nanoscale.

He developed two novel techniques in electron microscopy that allow the visualization of proteins and membrane dynamics at synapses.

As a complement to laboratory techniques such as gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, visible and electron microscopy carried out at the Centre of Research and Restoration of French Museums, Paris, the scientists used the ultra bright X-rays on the ESRF's ID21 beamline to analyse tiny fragments taken from different sculptures.

From 2000 to 2003 he was a research scientist at Evotec, Hamburg, developing advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques for high - throughput drug screening.

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.

An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Advanced Light Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, images nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery particles as they charge and discharge.

Caroline obtained her degree in physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 2008 and went on to do a PhD at the Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in 2012 with a thesis on the application of wavefront sensorless adaptive optics in advanced microscopy techniques.

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.

The core facility is a two - photon in vivo imaging platform developed at the Nonlinear bioimaging laboratory, a technique that allows for non-invasive structural and functional measurements in small animal models at different scales: from macroscopic imaging of the brain morphology to highly resolved microscopy of neuron populations, single neurons, and even subcellular structures.

«We applied a new technique called X-ray fluorescence microscopy — it looks at elemental composition,» confirmed Marshall.

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.