NMHMC Harvey wants you to get to know Einstein's brain. Intimately. When Einstein died in 1955, Dr Thomas Harvey autopsied the physicist's brain, carefully dissecting it into 170 parts ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, used high-speed atomic force microscopy to observe dynamic changes in AMPA receptors, which are vital for brain ...

Diapers are revolutionizing how scientists examine brains under the microscope by expanding the brain cells themselves ... they might choose receptors found on the surface of a particular kind ...

In biology, seeing can lead to understanding, and researchers in Professor Edward Boyden's lab at the McGovern Institute for ...

Certain proteins found in the human brain have long been known to be critical to controlling how brain cells communicate with each other. So-called GABA A receptors are proteins that control the ...

In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages ... To figure out details of the miniscule movements of AMPA receptors (at the level of single atoms), researchers used a very ...

A groundbreaking image of mouse brain tumor cells took top honors ... interacted.This took about three hours of precise observation under the microscope to capture the right moment, involving ...