Chemical synapses are biological junctions through which neurons' signals can be sent to each other and to non-neuronal cells such as those in muscles or glands. Chemical synapses allow neurons to ...

Before arriving at Janelia three years ago, Postdoctoral Scientist Antonio Fiore was designing and building optical ...

A powerful new technique combines expansion microscopy with lattice light-sheet microscopy for nanoscale imaging ... s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), uses a chemical technique ...

Excitatory synapses are located in confined chemical spaces called the dendritic ... recording methods (such as total internal reflection microscopy and two-photon laser scanning microscopy ...

Raman microscopy ... it can provide chemical information about specific molecules—such as proteins—that take part in the body's processes. However, the Raman light that comes from biological ...

Enter SynPull, a new synaptosome imaging method developed by David Klenerman, John Danial, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, England. SynPull combines single-molecule pull-down of ...

We can use microscopes to look at objects too small to be seen by the naked eye. The microscope in the picture is a light microscope ... Hazard Name the chemical or apparatus in the experiment ...

Visualizing the precise location and motion of proteins at the synapse is possible with super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, which, unlike conventional light microscopy, is not constrained by ...