When Einstein died in 1955, Dr Thomas Harvey autopsied the physicist's brain, carefully dissecting it into 170 parts, which were then sliced up into hundreds of cross-sections for microscopic ...

Spencer Smith, PhD, peers through a microscope of his own creation, trying to home in on a single neuron. The cell is tiny, about 0.015 millimeters in diameter. He attempts to clamp a microscopic ...

Microscopic movies capture brain proteins in action, ... Having this detailed view of their stepwise partnership will help us find ways to restore their activity in neurodevelopmental and ...

Researchers at UC Davis have developed a new microscope to capture high-speed images of brain cell activity with less harm to brain tissue. The new approach could be used in research with mice to ...

With a new microscope that's as light as a penny, researchers can now observe broad swaths of the brain in action as mice move about and interact with their environments.

A massive suite of papers offers a high-res view of the human and non-human primate brain. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive ...

Microscopic photography has the power to reveal the world hidden under a microscope. For 49 years, Nikon’s Small World Photo Microscopy Competition has been showcasing the best photos of our ...

Researchers have developed a new two-photon fluorescence microscope that captures high-speed images of neural activity at cellular resolution. By imaging much faster and with less harm to brain ...

Our cells rely on microscopic highways and specialized protein vehicles to move everything—from positioning organelles to carting protein instructions to disposing of cellular garbage. These ...