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.

Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes, and sometimes two instruments, ingeniously recombined, can accomplish feats that neither could have done on its own.

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural ...

The scientists needed a microscope that was high-speed ... imaged fatty sheaths that insulate mouse nerve cells, highlighted all of the dopaminergic neurons, and counted all the synapses across the ...

If you look at a nerve cell, a muscle cell, or a skin cell under the microscope, they appear strikingly different. However, ...

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Below the basic structure is shown in the same animal cell, on the left viewed with the light microscope ... The tail enables the sperm to swim. The nerve cell is extended, so that nerves can ...

The new Olympus LV200 microscope has changed ... to the rest of the brain and body via nerve pathways and secretion of particular chemicals. Some SCN cells contain the necessary molecular ...