The animal brain consists of tens of billions of neurons or nerve cells that perform complex tasks like processing emotions, learning, and making judgments by communicating with each other via neurotransmitters.
Mar 3, 2023
Although electron microscopy can already reveal details as small as one nanometer, ongoing research seeks to break through barriers limiting image quality and reducing the optical dose on the samples. Aberration is a common problem in electron mic...
Mar 3, 2023
Neurons perform numerous complex tasks by communicating with each other via small messenger molecules called neurotransmitters. Accurately detecting them is crucial to understanding the functioning of our brain. To this end, researchers have demon...
Mar 3, 2023
Researchers synthesize fluorescent molecularly imprinted polymer nanoparticles to sense small neurotransmitter molecules and understand how they govern brain activity
Mar 3, 2023
Although electron microscopy can already reveal details as small as one nanometer, ongoing research seeks to break through barriers limiting image quality and reducing the optical dose on the samples. Aberration is a common problem in electron mic...
Mar 3, 2023
Scientists at the Tokyo University of Science in Japan have devised a low-cost technique for creating multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) on a plastic film. Image Credit: Tokyo University of...
Mar 3, 2023
X-ray diffraction has been used for more than a hundred years to understand the structure of crystals or proteins—for instance, in 1952 the well-known double helix structure of the DNA that carries genetic information was discovered in this way. I...
Mar 3, 2023
Versarien has announced the launch of Umbro's ProTraining Elite range, including garments incorporating the Company's Graphene-Wear technology. Image Versarien has been working with U...
Mar 3, 2023
Researchers have managed to take three-?dimensional pictures of single nanoparticles using extremely short and strong X-?ray pulses. In the future this technique could even be used to make 3D-?movies of dynamical processes at the nanoscale.
Mar 3, 2023
Brain tumors are notoriously hard to treat. One reason is the challenge posed by the blood-brain barrier, a network of blood vessels and tissue with closely spaced cells.
Mar 3, 2023
