Here, a colored scanning electron micrograph of empty fat cells. Fat cells, or adipocytes, are amongst the largest cells in the human body. They form a thick insulating layer under the skin which ...

As it was, Cajal’s depictions of the nerve cells he scrutinized under his microscope were key components ... This was Cajal’s “neuron doctrine,” explained neurobiologist Eric Newman ...

Next, they programmed a microscope to automatically take photos of the cells. It’s a powerful ... firing from every single neuron, the authors said. We’ll be watching neural computations happen in ...

Until now, scientists have had to manually mark which cells look alive and which look dead under the microscope ... images and keep a tally of when each neuron in a sample appears to have died.

Neurites are tiny structures that are hard to see under a microscope during live-cell imaging ... Those high-intensity pixels are assumed to be neuron and neurite structures.

"There are a lot of diseases that are very difficult to figure out the mechanisms of in the body, so people grow cultures on platforms so we can see the dynamics under a microscope," said U.

Any biology student can pick a neuron out of a photograph ... algorithms so that they could identify the boundaries between cells in a particular specimen. Image-analysis tools such as ...

To do this, they prepared thin sections of a mouse brain and, under a microscope ... all points of contact between the cell processes of the activated neuron that forwarded the signal and the ...