Sentences with phrase «of powerful microscopes»

Using a combination of powerful microscopes, hand lenses, and 3D reconstructions, the researchers looked for telltale signs of deliberate cutting on the cow skull.

Eight decades later Ernst Ruska won a Nobel for his design of a powerful microscope that exploited the electron's wave behavior.

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If the sentencings of two ex-house leaders of one state weren't enough, now New York's two most powerful politicians are under the microscope.

In a study whose results were published in Nature last July, physicist Ali Yazdani used a powerful microscope to track electrons as they encountered stairlike barriers on the surface of antimony, a material that shares several characteristics with topological insulators such as bismuth telluride.

Using a powerful microscope to observe mouse oocytes as they split, Ellenberg's group found that the spindles assembled into two coherent structures, one for the future egg and one for the future polar body.At first, spindles appeared throughout the cell in a sort of mesh.

This microscope is powerful enough to detect objects as small as a single micron — one - thousandth of a millimeter — and plaques are about 10 microns across.

The laser in a tiny but powerful microscope is giving neuroscientists their best look yet at how the brains of rats work as they scurry about their daily activities.

Yet, he built, by - hand, microscopes that were the most powerful of his day.

Now, scientists at UCLA have used a powerful microscope to image the three - dimensional positions of individual atoms to a precision of 19 trillionths of a meter, which is several times smaller than a hydrogen atom.

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.

A powerful X-ray tomography scanner allowed the researchers to image particularly thick sections of the brains of mice, which afforded them views into intact neural areas much larger than are customary in microscope imaging.

They proposed a new way to study a cuprate, one that no other group had tried: a powerful imaging technique developed by Davis, called sublattice imaging - which is performed using a specialized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of determining the electronic structure in different subsets of the atoms in the crystal, the so - called sublattices.

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.

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.

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.

Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author of a new research paper on «topological insulators,» an emerging class of materials that could make possible «spintronic» devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies, is shown here inspecting devices made from topological insulators under a microscope before electrical measurements.

He adds that the microscope's electron beam is more powerful than natural settings, but the gelling effect could affect the lifetime of electrospray thrusters in low - Earth and geosynchronous orbit.

The study used powerful electron microscopes at the University of Leeds» Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology.

Researchers used genetically modified mice in which the axons in the corticospinal tract, a bundle of nerves carrying signals from the brain to the spinal cord, were «stained» with fluorescent matter visible under a powerful microscope.

Among the instructors is Manu Prakash, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford and a pioneer in the field of «frugal science,» who has brought his powerful $ 1 paper microscopes to Madagascar and taught students how to explore the microscopic world in which they live, including the lice in their hair, the pathogens in their water and the disease - causing parasites in their environment.

Now, using a powerful laser scanning microscope, George Brooks, an exercise metabolism expert at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues demonstrate that lactic acid is present in rat muscle cells regardless of oxygen content.

They also combined powerful microscopes with high speed cameras, capturing footage of the tiny hairs, or cilia, on the corals» surface.

Using a powerful microscope that lets researchers see the formation of crystals in real time, a team led by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that negatively charged molecules — such as carbohydrates found in the shells of mollusks — control where, when, and how calcium carbonate forms.

Collaborating with other labs, we will develop computational methods to determine the activity of single neurons even when the microscope on its own isn't powerful enough to view objects as small as single cells.

Also, for the first time, the chemists demonstrated that the «cooking,» or heating up, of the ingredients for the nanomaterial can take place inside the imaging tool itself, in this case a powerful microscope called a transmission electron microscope.

By taking multiple images of the iron - platinum nanoparticle with an advanced electron microscope at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and using powerful reconstruction algorithms developed at UCLA, the researchers determined the precise three - dimensional arrangement of atoms in the nanoparticle.

Researchers used a powerful X-ray microscope at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) to capture images of nerve cell samples at different stages of maturity as they became more specialized in their function — this process is known as «differentiation.»

This device is capable of observing extremely small microorganisms even at 10 micrometers — two to five times powerful than previous underwater microscopes, Washington Post reports.

Today, Carpenter's lab continues those efforts as her team works to accelerate drug discovery by writing software to automatically analyze the deluge of cellular images generated by today's powerful, robotic microscopes.

A new light microscope so powerful that it allows scientists peering inside cells to discern the precise location of nearly each individual protein they are studying has been developed and...

The smartphone microscope is powerful enough to visualize specimens as small as 1 / 200th of a millimeter, including microscopic organisms, animal and plant cells, blood cells, cell nuclei, and more.

Researchers have combined these structures to create nanophotonic counterparts of integrated circuits, as well as more efficient solar cells, ultra-small lasers and sensors, and more powerful optical microscopes.

«And if you see it through the eyes of the opportunities of the states, the light microscope becomes very, very powerful.»

The electron microscope is an extremely powerful tool for viewing the individual synapses of neurons, at orders of magnitude higher resolution than light microscopy.

Our modern imaging center is equipped with state - of - the - art confocal laser scanning microscopes, fluorescence and stereo microscopes, two photon microscope, laser microdissection microscope and powerful image analysis computers with imaging software.

«We now have the equivalent of the microscope and the telescope for understanding learning, teaching, and schooling in powerful ways.