Sentences with phrase «new microscopy techniques»

«Using new microscopy techniques, we could show that the receptor of a well known growth factor, EGF, plays an important role in tight junction barrier formation in the epidermis.

Powerful new microscopy techniques enable researchers to observe the whole process in living cells, with bright fluorescent tags highlighting the chromosomes and other cellular components.

Besides devising unique ways to analyze conventional cell images, researchers are also using new microscopy techniques to better define cell shapes.

NSF provides state - of - the - art imaging tools to academic labs; supports efforts to develop new microscopy techniques; and funds training for young scientists and engineers in the field.

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.

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.

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.

To find answers, Columbia researchers developed a new microscopy technique that allows for the direct tracking of fatty acids after they've been absorbed into living cells.

Amazingly, a new microscopy technique described in the journal Science on Friday makes those deep dives possible, and there are gorgeous videos to prove it.

In another demonstration of the ripple effect created by a single, RPB - supported investigation, researchers, using a new microscopy technique focused on eye tissues damaged by scarring in diabetic patients, have...

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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.

Room - temperature investigations apply several techniques (polarization microscopy, single - molecule imaging, emission time dependence, energy transfer, lifetime studies, and the like) to a growing array of biophysical problems where new insight may be gained from direct observations of hidden static and dynamic inhomogeneity.

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

A new nanopatterning technique combines the advantages of near - field microscopy with photolithography.

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

The researchers have also been able to couple their new meso - level imaging technique with extremely detailed electron microscopy.

It also utilizes new techniques that allow three - dimensional analysis of fluorescent embryonic skeletons, using advanced spin - disc confocal microscopy and software.

«It's opened up the horizons of microscopy to new techniques, especially in the biological sciences.»

The new technique, dubbed photoactivated localization microscopy, currently has a resolution similar to that of electron microscopy.

«New quantum dot technique combines best of optical and electron microscopy.»

This new technique was made possible by the development in recent years of single - molecule microscopy, which enables scientists to peer into the nano - world by turning the fluorescence of individual molecules on and off.

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.

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.

Furthermore, so as to understand the chemical and physical nature of the shaping process, standard characterization techniques (spectroscopy and electron microscopy) have been employed, as well as new theoretical models and advanced computer simulation techniques.

She was making use of the newest version of a breakthrough technique that Betzig unveiled in 2011, called Bessel beam plane illumination microscopy.

Now, using this new technique — which combines optical microscopy with the use of particular organic compounds that make the energy of excitons visible — «we can directly say what kind of behavior the excitons were moving around with.»

The different types of motion of the plasmons were characterized using a microscopy technique called electron energy - loss spectroscopy (EELS), whose very fine spatial and spectral resolution enabled the researchers to propose a new theoretical model of plasmon behavior.

Generating videos of the nanowires stretching out required new methods to simultaneously label multiple features, keep a camera focused on the wriggling bacteria, and combine the optical techniques with atomic force microscopy to gain higher resolution.

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.

This new technique holds significant promise for applications in metrology and chemical sensing, as well as potential improvements in adaptive optics for microscopy and biomedicine.

By developing a new fluorescence microscopy - based technique, the researchers were able to measure how long it takes proteins to move over distances ranging from 0.2 to 3 micrometres in living cells.

The development of ever more sensitive microscopy and chemical - analysis techniques will continue to produce new insights from existing samples into the foreseeable future — good news, considering that no nation appears to be close to returning humans to the lunar surface.

New techniques combining various staining methods with electron and light microscopy make it possible to investigate in detail the connections among nerve cells and the circuitry of the brain

A new technique enables 3 - D visualization of chromatin (DNA plus associated proteins) structure and organization within a cell nucleus (purple, bottom left) by painting the chromatin with a metal cast and imaging it with electron microscopy (EM).

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.

Her current primary interest is the development of new super-resolution localisation microscopy techniques, both through the development of optical systems and the creation of novel image analysis algorithms.

Scientists will need new tools to be able to find them, which might include new antibodies and microscopy techniques.»

«Cryo - electron microscopy is one of those techniques so basic and important that its use spans all of biology — including understanding the human body and human disease and in designing new medicines.

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.

The Fraser team borrows techniques from X-ray crystallography, NMR, and cryo - electron microscopy and develops new methods to gather and to analyze the data.

Pre-Brainbow techniques, such as Golgi staining, injection of diffusible labels, or electron microscopy of stained sections, were limited due to low resolution or were very time - intensive, necessitating the development of a new technique.

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

The researchers developed a new kind of imaging technique, cryo - electron microscopy, to freeze samples and evaluate the protein structure.

New advanced microscopy techniques are established to detect morpho - functional aspects in brain and hearth.

The initial aim of the pathology investigation was to carefully examine the spinal cord using immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy, as well as classical techniques, to confirm the pathology previously reported and to look for new clues to the pathogenesis and aetiology using the more modern techniques.