We are
using live imaging, transgenic reporters of osteoblast gene expression and targeted RNAseq approaches to identify the molecular regulators of progressive osteoblast differentiation during expansion of the skull.
Using live imaging in zebrafish to track oligodendrocytes in real time, researchers reporting in the June 24 issue of the Cell Press journal Developmental Cell discovered that individual oligodendrocytes coat neurons with myelin for only five hours after they are born.
«The movement of genes within the nucleus, captured here
using live imaging, seems to play a role in switching their activity on and off,» said first author Dr Stefanie Rosa from the John Innes Centre.
Not exact matches
The researchers set up a system to grow asymmetric nerve cells in an observation chamber and
use live cell
imaging to track how rabies virus particles are transported along the axons.
Under the tutelage of her PhD supervisor, Southampton's Sumeet Mahajan, Professor in Molecular Biophotonics &
Imaging in Chemistry & Institute for
Life Sciences (IfLS), Catarina is
using ultra-fast lasers to achieve the same effect but in a less invasive way.
In cellular experiments,
live cell
imaging was
used to monitor VP40 localization in human cells.
Then, Lorin Milescu's students
used live -
imaging techniques and software developed in their lab to demonstrate that the Gr28bD protein can, through temperature differences, modulate the brain activity of fruit flies.
Using data from brain
imaging techniques that enable visualising the brain's activity, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a Parisian ENT surgeon have managed to decipher brain reorganisation processes at work when people start to lose their hearing, and thus predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant among people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult
life.
Earlier, for his Ph.D., he
used his physics training to study biological interactions at the molecular resolution — but for his postdoc he changed approaches dramatically, turning to cell biology and applying his skills to the development of high - resolution functional
imaging of DNA transcription in
living cells.
This also made the
imaging process too slow to
use on moving,
living organisms.
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Using the probe's
imaging function during experiments, our medical collaborators would be able to see deep inside the brain of a
living organism and guide the placement of the probe to the right brain region.»
A novel study in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), presents cases from Boston - area hospitals where victims were treated, examining the medical response and
imaging technologies
used to save
lives and limbs.
To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab,
used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an
imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in
living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.
Using a novel approach for
imaging the movement of immune cells in
living animals, researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases (CIID) have identified what appear to be the initial steps leading to joint inflammation in a model of inflammatory arthritis.
To overcome these problems, Min and his team developed a new modality to visualize glucose uptake activity inside single cells based on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS)
imaging, and demonstrated its
use in
live cancer cells, tumor xenograft tissues, primary neurons and mouse brain tissues.
The researchers
used high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) at the Museum's Microscopy and
Imaging Facility, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Biomaterials Science Center of the University of Basel in Switzerland to scan the skulls of 21 felid specimens, including seven modern cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) from distinct populations, a closely related extinct cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) that
lived in the Pleistocene between about 2.6 million and 126,000 years ago, and more than a dozen other
living felid species.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has analysed the effectiveness of its beauty patch,
using a technique for
imaging live tissue to demonstrate the patch's beneficial effects on the skin.
Although the technique may find
uses in many diverse fields, two of the most exciting possibilities are localized optical spectroscopy of semiconductors and the fluorescence
imaging of
living cells.
«By
using low - cost thermal cameras, our work is a first step toward bringing thermal
imaging into people's everyday
lives.
To determine the most common type of age - related segregation errors, the researchers first
used a novel high resolution
imaging technique to visualize chromosomes in
live mouse egg cells throughout the whole first stage of meiosis.
To determine the success of the strategy, the team measured levels of HIV - 1 RNA and
used a novel
live bioluminescence
imaging system.
Using a powerful
imaging technique that allowed the scientists to track the presence and movement of parasites in
living tissues, the researchers found that Toxoplasma infects the brain's endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, reproduces inside of them, and then moves on to invade the central nervous system.
This type of mobile thermal
imaging could be
used for monitoring breathing problems in elderly people
living alone, people suspected of having sleep apnea or babies at risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
Researchers from Warwick Medical School and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
used a magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) based method to identify and confirm the presence of brown adipose tissue in a
living adult.
Rapid three - dimensional isotropic
imaging of
living cells
using Bessel beam plane illumination.
The observation was validated
using magnetic resonance
imaging of
live study participants by Eric Halgren, PhD, professor in the Department of Neurosciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and colleagues.
learn from our speakers the benefits of
imaging live cells
using techniques such as high resolution microscopy, superresolution microscopy, and high - content analysis
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for
Life Science Technologies, in collaboration with Osaka City University and Kansai University of Welfare Sciences, have
used functional PET
imaging to show that levels of neuroinflammation, or inflammation of the nervous system, are higher in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome than in healthy people.
Using a technique that creates high - resolution, three - dimensional images, Guerinot and her colleague Tracy Punshon, an expert at
imaging metals moving through
living systems, found arsenic concentrated in the grain's nutrient - rich outer layers, which are polished off in the processing of white rice but remain in brown rice.
When the team inserted the new analogues into a
living cell and
used high - definition, single fluorescent - molecule
imaging, they were finally able to directly document the actions of specific gangliosides in a
living cell for the first time.
The team plans to
use live cell
imaging to explore the function of the empty varicosities in axonal wiring.
Using sensitive
live cell
imaging, the team noted that endocytic waves initiated by clathrin emerge in some cell populations.
But until now, super-resolution methods have been impractical for
use in
imaging living cells.
«We offer PRISM as a new microscopy tool and anticipate that it will be rapidly
used in the
life science community to expand the scope for 3D high - speed
imaging for biological investigations,» says Theo Lasser.
Using a special
imaging technique, Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the toxic build - up of amyloid protein is greater on the left side of the brain — the site of language processing — than on the right side in many individuals
living with PPA.
Using high - resolution CT scanning and 3D computer
imaging, it was possible to reconstruct and visualise the brain and inner ear of Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki — a small, plant - eating dinosaur, which
lived 150 million years ago, in what is now Tanzania.
This was accomplished through the
use of
live - cell microscopy, microfluidic and
imaging tools, and mathematical models.
Using optical
imaging technology, the researchers can observe the bacteria in real time, in
living animals, without harming them.
Scientists have pioneered the
use of a high - powered
imaging technique to picture in exquisite detail one of the central proteins of
life — a cellular recycling unit with a role in many diseases.
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a high - resolution
live imaging technique that can be
used for early detection of retinal diseases, such as age - related macular degeneration, diabetes - related conditions, glaucoma or vascular occlusions, for example.
He also co-founded Glencoe Software, Inc., which commercializes and customizes OME technology for
use in biopharma and data publishing, and BioImagingUK, a consortium of U.K.
imaging scientists who develop,
use, or administer
imaging solutions for
life sciences research.
«If they were looking for
living people, they would be
using infrared
imaging,» says forensic scientist Lawrence Kobilinsky, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
Joanna Fowler has made significant contributions to brain research and the understanding of diseases such as addiction, which she studies
using positron emission tomography (PET), an
imaging technique that measures the concentration and movement of a positron - emitting radioisotope in
living tissue.
The researchers
used this
live -
imaging technique to study fly embryos at a key stage in their development, approximately two hours after the onset of embryonic
life where the genes undergo fast and furious transcription for about one hour.
Embryonic hemocytes lend themselves beautifully to
live imaging studies since fluorescent probes can be expressed specifically in these cells
using hemocyte specific promoters and their movements subsequently imaged within
living embryos
using confocal timelapse microscopy.
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Using a simple «mirror trick» and not - so - simple computational analysis, scientists affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have considerably improved the speed, efficiency, and resolution of a light - sheet microscope, with broad applications for enhanced
imaging of
live cells and embryos.
Using a combination of molecular biology, biochemical and novel multi-dimensional digital
imaging approaches we study in real - time complex multi dimensional signal integration during the interaction of T cells with
live antigen - presenting cells.
Using functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI), the researchers found that seniors participating in a youth mentoring program made gains in key brain regions that support cognitive abilities important to planning and organizing one's daily
life.
To answer this question, a study presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2018
used real - time, single - cell
imaging to make movies of
live cancer cells.
In the Finkbeiner laboratory, Linsley
uses time - lapse
imaging of neurons in culture, within organotypic mouse brain slices, and within
live zebrafish to uncover the mechanisms in neurodegeneration that lead to neuronal death.