These entries for the 2012 Art of Neuroscience competition in the Netherlands
use modern imaging techniques to show how far our view into the brain has come.
While modern imaging techniques have been used to identify atherosclerosis in the mummified remains of multiple cultures, evidence of genetic predisposition has been harder to obtain due to the degradation of the genetic material over time.
Old textbook stereotypes of mitochondria as tidy, self - contained capsules have faded away
as modern imaging techniques show them routinely fusing into tubes and branches.
With the advent
of modern imaging techniques that peer into the brain as it functions, though, we at least gain some perspective on our bad habits.
Cost - effective solar photovoltaic materials are being developed within the Academy of Finland's research programme Photonics and
Modern Imaging Techniques.
For example, researchers can now use combinations of transgenic animal models and
modern imaging techniques to view single cells buried deep within embryos.