Sentences with phrase «of microscopy techniques»

Our experimental and theoretical analysis draws upon nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a variety of microscopy techniques such as transmission electron microscopy, computation tools such as the NWChem for high - performance computational chemistry as well as supercomputers, and other tools.

It also adds details to the descriptions of the microscopy techniques for which the Nobel was awarded.

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.

This is a close - up of the head region of the Alalcomenaeus fossil specimen with the superimposed colors of a microscopy technique revealing the distribution of chemical elements in the fossil.

Close - up of the head region of the Alalcomenaeus fossil specimen with the superimposed colors of a microscopy technique revealing the distribution of chemical elements in the fossil.

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To investigate the nonlinear response of such plasmonic oligomers, the authors used a novel optical microscopy technique, which is equipped with polarization - structured beams.

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.

Forthcoming workshops cover techniques as varied as «molecular and genetic tools for the analysis of medaka and zebrafish development» and «cryo - electron microscopy and 3 - D image reconstruction.»

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.

«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.»

Unlike nerves elsewhere in the body, the structure of the living corneal nerve can be seen and measured using a technique called confocal microscopy.

Together, these findings demonstrate that emerging noninvasive techniques to measure corneal nerve fiber alterations such as in vivo corneal confocal microscopy may be useful clinical tools to screen for and monitor progression of peripheral neuropathy in HIV - infected patients.

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.

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.

By using a combination of advanced genetics, molecular approaches, and microscopy techniques, they found that this signaling pathway is used in the adult brain in a completely novel way.

The technique, called microenvironmental selective plane illumination microscopy (meSPIM), uses exceptionally long, thin beams of laser light to trigger fluorescence in a sample, causing it to glow.

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.

SAY FREEZE Scientists used an imaging technique called cryo - electron microscopy to snap the first close - ups of lithium dendrites, revealing them as long, needlelike crystals.

Dr. Michael Man, a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Dani's Unit, combined the techniques of UV light pulses and electron microscopy in order to see electrons moving inside a solar cell.

The technique could also be modified for microscopy, allowing imaging of photosynthesis inside the plant cells.

The technique, called stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy, generates videos of moving cells deep inside tissue and could replace biopsies in the diagnosis of cancers.

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.

In the lab, the team mixed each strain of K. veneficum with a species of algae on which it preys, and recorded the three - dimensional motions of thousands of cells using a high - speed holographic microscopy technique they described in 20071.

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

Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, Joachim Frank of Columbia University and Richard Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, won for their contributions to the development of the technique, called cryo - electron microscopy, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced October 4.

This achievement has been made possible by using high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy, a technique brought to the CNIO thanks to Óscar Llorca, director of the Structural Biology Programme and lead author on the paper published in Nature Communications.

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.

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

Using an advanced imaging technique called intravital microscopy, the researchers followed the movement and interaction of HIV - infected cells in the spleen of mice.

Applying electron microscopy to biology was a challenge because the technique is done in a vacuum, which can dry out and distort the shape of proteins and other biological molecules.

But current super-resolution microscopy techniques do not deliver spectral information, which is useful for scientists to understand the behavior of individual molecules, as well as to enable high - quality multicolor imaging of multiple targets.

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

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.

«These factors increase the likelihood of adoption of the technique in developing countries where cost, complexity and lack of expertly trained technicians can often prohibit the use of a polarized microscopy technique or even traditional laboratory microscopy as the standard of diagnosis,» Coté says.

The researchers used Prototype Foamy Virus integrase as a model and two molecular microscopy techniques to record viral integration complexes traveling along stretches of target DNA in search of insertion points.

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.

«Basically, this approach enables us to minimize the number of samples that need to be measured with expensive techniques such as atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy,» Epps says.

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.

Using electron microscopy tools combined with analytical spectroscopy techniques, the researchers were able to examine the surface of bioprocessed Martian regolith simulants in detail.

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.

To make their determination, researchers used a combination of analytical techniques, including atom probe tomography, transmission electron microscopy and electron beam induced current.

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.

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

«This is a perfect example of why the multiple imaging and spectroscopy techniques available in electron microscopy make it such an indispensable and versatile tool in renewable energy research.»

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.

«We studied a range of authentic microfossils using the same transmission electron microscopy technique and in all cases these reveal coherent, rounded envelopes of carbon having dimensions consistent with their origin from cell walls and sheaths.

Two research teams have independently developed light microscopy techniques that resolve objects on the nanometer scale, one of which is described online in Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1127344).