Then, they identified all synapses between the two nerve cells under the electron microscope. They correlated the size of these synapses with the synaptic impulses they had measured previously.

The wiring of one insect’s brain no longer contains much uncharted territory. All of the nerve cells — and virtually every connection between them — in a larval fruit fly brain have now been ...

but also to discover structures that would otherwise not be visible under an electron microscope – e.g. electrical synapses between nerve cells or receptors that influence the interaction ...

For these reasons, among others, despite using electron microscopy for high-resolution cell imaging, many questions of nerve function remained unanswered. In contrast, using fluorescent molecules ...

to analyze nerve cells in the ear as part of a project on hearing restoration, to segment artificial tumor cells for cancer ...

Pawel Burkhardt’s collaboration with Maike Kittelmann, a 3D electron microscopy expert ... now have available includes five nerve net neurons and their widely branching neurites”, says Maike.

Olfactory nerve cells have long projections ... Devendra Kumar Maurya used a new technique called correlative microscopy. The technique combines electron microscopy and confocal microscopy so that a ...

However, when Erbacher looked at skin tissue under the microscope, he noticed that nerve fibers did not just grow around skin cells but, to the whole team’s surprise, tunneled straight through them.

Cryo-ET uses electron microscopes to study flash-frozen samples, like cells. Combining the two techniques immediately raised problems the researchers needed to overcome. The first was that cells ...