Sentences with phrase «of light microscopes»

Until recently, visualizing transcription in living embryos was impossible due to limits in the sensitivity and resolution of light microscopes.

Electrons are far too small and fast to be seen, even with the help of a light microscope.

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Some six decades ago, it had been used in the study of human chromosomes: The chemical, which could stop mitosis in its tracks, made it easier to spy the dividing chromosomal strands in metaphase, where they could be clearly viewed under a light microscope.

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A microscope the size of a lighter, this is as cool as it gets.

FlatScope eliminates the tradeoff that hinders traditional microscopes in which arrays of lenses can either gather less light from a large field of view or gather more light from a smaller field.

Because of its amplification, the resonator can improve the performance of cameras looking for tiny wisps of light, such as those used in microscopes.

The light is then measured using a microscope, yielding a three - dimensional map of the electric fields.

This could be seen as a series of coloured rings when the lens was viewed from above with a microscope: the visible light leaked through the thin gold film (arxiv.org/abs/0911.4464).

It became the archetypal image of snow largely because of the work of Wilson Bentley, a Vermont farmer who spent the winters between 1885 and 1931 outside his house photographing snow through a light microscope.

The team modified a microscope that was able to merge light sources at a range conducive to observing the details of single melanoma cells.

There are details of the structure of the living cell, essential features in the composition of metals, cotton, silk, rubber, paint, bone, nerve, and a thousand other things which are hidden even from the microscope, and must always remain so hidden because the failure does not lie with the skill of the optician but with the incapacity of light itself.

An electron microscope, which uses a beam of electrons as a light source, recorded the raw data that was then analyzed to create 3 - D reconstructions of the structures.

Under the microscope, this thin section of sauropod bone appears coloured in polarised light.

Physicists from Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have developed an attosecond electron microscope that allows them to visualize the dispersion of light in time and space, and observe the motions of electrons in atoms.

An ordinary microscope or telescope can't see detail on a scale less than the wavelength of light.

The best microscopes currently available can detect light from 3 to 4 millimetres into the brain, enough to see light signals coming from the cortex of a small animal, but not enough to see deep - seated structures such as the hippocampus.

Electron microscope images of visible - NIR light responsible photocatalyst composed with black phosphorous (BP), lanthanum titanate (LA2Ti2O7, LTO), and gold nanoparticles (Au).

Using a scanning transmission electron microscope at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Molecular Foundry, Miao and his colleagues analyzed a small piece of tungsten, an element used in incandescent light bulbs.

When LCLS opened six years ago as a DOE Office of Science User Facility, it was the first light source of its kind — a unique X-ray microscope that uses the brightest and fastest X-ray pulses ever made to provide unprecedented details of the atomic world.

Under the microscope, the resulting slices of amygdala lit up like a Christmas tree: green if they had absorbed the extra CREB, red if positive for Arc.

Light microscopes based on scattering, reflection and absorption, or a combination of these, have been a key enabling technology for the study of objects invisible to our eyes, especially in the field of biology.

The instrument — a scanning Kerr microscope — bounced femtosecond pulses of laser light off the surface of rectangular Ni80Fe20 samples, measuring 15 nanometers thick and grown on small strips of gold.

That way, any neuron that had extra CREB by virtue of getting infected with the virus would also conveniently light up under the microscope.

The technology the researchers used to tackle this problem consists of a wide - field microscope that emits blue light, which penetrates about 50 to 150 microns below the skin and is reflected back to a video camera.

In a recreation of Theodore Engelmann's 1883 experiment, in which he discovered that blue and red light were most favorable for photosynthesis, a skylight in the lobby will admit light that will be refracted by a prism and lenses intended to represent the optics of a microscope.

To test this idea, Szibor's graduate student, Christoph Schubert, tracked pollen counts in his own nose for a year using what he termed a «handkerchief test» — after blowing his nose, he would identify the types of pollen in the mucus using light and scanning electron microscopes.

Shapiro and colleagues are now building even more powerful X-ray microscopes at the Advanced Light Source to improve the platform's spatial resolution by a factor of ten.

Under a powerful light microscope, he looked for tiny chips and abrasions on the edges of the arrowheads.

Photo of phytosterols in their natural state with fat present, taken under a microscope in polarized light.

The team monitored the passage of light through the waveguide using a near - field scanning optical microscope and confirmed that a narrow beam of light successfully passes through the waveguide forwards, but that the wave's symmetry breaks down when traveling backwards2.

This large - format book provides a visual introduction to the entire electromagnetic spectrum, illustrating each wavelength band with captivating photographs taken through telescopes, microscopes and cameras sensitive to all ranges of light.

Under a light microscope, Schweitzer saw groups of red circular structures that looked for all the world like red blood cells.

Then, using a powerful microscope that magnifies and lights up the electrical circuitry of the cells, they watched the chain of events that unfolded inside them.

At about a half - millionth of a meter across, Mimi is one of the few viruses visible under a standard light microscope.

«We can use expansion pathology to push conventional light microscopes beyond their current limits, which could have important applications in diagnostic pathology,» said the study's co-lead author, Octavian Bucur, MD, PhD, of the Department of Pathology and Cancer Research Institute at BIDMC, who is also a Ludwig Cancer Center Research Investigator.

In addition to fruit flies, they successfully used the program to analyze images of zebrafish and mice, as well as data collected from a commercial light sheet microscope and a commercial confocal microscope.

Due to diffraction, the bending of light, objects smaller than about 250 nanometers — the size of the smallest bacteria — are fuzzy when viewed through an optical microscope, if they can be seen at all.

That gives it the ability to direct beams of the light in specific places, making the material useful for microscopes and novel projection systems.

Being able to reach a resolution of tens of nanometers with visible light meant that biological molecules could be observed while still alive, not under the harsh conditions necessary for an electron microscope.

English scientist Robert Hooke coined the term cell in 1665 after examining a slice of cork through a light microscope.

The picture was taken with an iPhone 4s through a microscope, and is part of researchers» attempts to optimize the retention of both heat and light on solar cells.

While conventional tabletop microscopes shine light through the sample from above, the Shih lab's technology launches the light from the side of the slide, which is about one millimeter thick.

Using this approach, it takes about an hour to scan a piece of tissue 500 by 500 by 200 microns, using a light sheet fluorescence microscope.

MCD is diagnosed based on the characteristic podocyte, elongations of the cell normally too tiny to be seen through a light microscope.

Using one of the world's most powerful soft X-ray microscopes — the Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope (STXM) and X-ray Emission beamlines — at the Canadian Light Source in tandem with one of the world's highest resolution aberration - corrected transmission electron microscopes housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Banerjee and collaborators from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the UIC and Argonne National Laboratory were able to observe the unique electronic properties of their novel vanadium pentoxide and directly prove magnesium - ion intercalation into the material.

That required some special equipment: a microscope that uses lasers and fluorescent lights to piece together 3D images, a special lighting system to keep the plants healthy during their longer - than - usual time in the spotlight, and a microscope setup flipped entirely on its side so the plants could grow upright instead of growing horizontally along a slide.

Dr Ann Wheeler said: «The spinning disk microscope produces focused images at high speed because it has a disk with an array of tiny holes in it which remove the out of focus light.

Traditionally, SPIM microscopes rotate the sample so that they can clearly see all the dimensions, but this severely limits the imaging speed and can increase the damage done to the cells from light exposure because of the many extra images taken at multiple angles.

The University of Portsmouth and NREL collaborated with scientists at the Diamond Light Source in the United Kingdom, a synchrotron that uses intense beams of X-rays 10 billion times brighter than the sun to act as a microscope powerful enough to see individual atoms.