Sentences with phrase «used microscopy techniques»

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.

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.

Using a microscopy technique that offers a window into living brain tissue, he will probe dopamine's actions in different groups of neurons, such as those that signal directly to blood vessels that supply the brain.

The emission of the acceptor fluorophore can be measured using microscopy techniques.

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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.

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

«We use a technique called scanning X-ray fluorescence microscopy,» study co-author Satoshi Matsuyama says.

A unique camera that can capture a detailed micron - resolution image from a distance uses a laser and techniques that borrow from holography, microscopy and «Matrix» - style bullet time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

To see what happens to the calcite when it is destabilized, researchers used a technique called X-ray reflection interface microscopy (XRIM) at the APS.

Scientists used techniques such as scanning electron microscopy and x-ray imaging to investigate species» bodies and feeding mechanisms.

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.

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

Acquiring images using modern techniques such as light sheet fluorescence, confocal, or electron microscopy creates a significant data stream.

The researchers used an ion beam to slice off thin sections from the samples, and they used electron microscopy techniques to image the samples and perform elemental analyses.

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.

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.

«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.

By using advanced microscopy techniques, researchers can create more detailed neurological maps and imaging.

learn from our speakers the benefits of imaging live cells using techniques such as high resolution microscopy, superresolution microscopy, and high - content analysis

This is because we were using traditional atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques, in which the protein - DNA shows up as a single blob, and the DNA path information is missing.»

The researchers used molecular and microscopy techniques to observe interactions between the bacteria.

The scientists explored how the eyes are made and how well they work using high - resolution microscopy and x-ray techniques, as well as computer modeling.

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.

Boyden and colleagues first described the underlying technique, known as expansion microscopy (ExM), last year, when they used it to image proteins inside large samples of brain tissue.

The neuroscientists measured the activity of neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex using a special microscopy technique.

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

Using a technique called atomic force microscopy, Dilshan Balasuriya, led by Professor Mike Edwardson in Cambridge's Department of Pharmacology, imaged individual 3 trimers and confirmed that the complete 3 - subunit trimers cross-linked up to three sodium channel α - subunits.

The TSRI laboratories of Professor Erica Ollmann Saphire and Assistant Professor Andrew Ward are studying the structures of these antibodies using techniques called electron microscopy, which creates high - resolution images by hitting samples with electrons, and X-ray crystallography, which determines the atomic structure of crystalline arrays of proteins.

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.»

By using a powerful imaging technique known as cryo - electron microscopy, however, Campbell and her colleagues were able to figure out exactly how the antibiotic throws a wrench into RNAP.

Another technique, time microscopy, also exists, and was used by the laboratory Physique des lasers, atomes et molécules (CNRS / Université de Lille) to study instabilities similar to those observed in turbulent fluids.

But now, using a technique called structured illumination, the EMBL team has managed to subtract out this interference, making light sheet microscopy even more powerful.

Because cement is a heterogeneous material, made up of multiple components, Shahrin used a scanning electron microscopy / X-ray technique to find the areas in cement samples that had the highest ratio of C - S - H relative to other constituent materials.