Not exact matches
Within hours of his demise in 1955, Albert Einstein's
brain was salvaged,
sliced into 240 pieces and stored in jars for safekeeping.
«The angle and thickness of a
brain slice are very important, and the direction of a column can change even
within a single
slice, which could be the reason why they weren't noticed before,» says Hosoya.
They then kill the animal and
slice its
brain tissue thin enough so that light can shine through it under a microscope, revealing the structure
within each
slice.
Another Kavli researcher, Steven Siegelbaum, uses a technology called two - photon microscopy to image pre-synaptic terminals (the nerve cell tips that send charges from one cell to another)
within slices of living
brain tissue.
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.
Weiss, T. & Veh, R. W. Morphological and electrophysiological characteristics of neurons
within identified subnuclei of the lateral habenula in rat
brain slices.