A new approach to Alzheimer's disease treatment could be on the horizon, inspired by a compound found in common herbs.

Each neuron can have hundreds of branches that ... "The hyper-detail of electron microscopy data creates its own challenges, ...

Researchers previously relied on electron microscopy to generate an anatomical ... which won the Nobel Prize — it does not measure neuron activity in a parallel fashion. Patch-clamps only ...

Caption Scanning electron microscopy image of a human neuromuscular junction generated in microfluidic devices. Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived motor neuron axons fan out and embed ...

In a study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers revealed the structural underpinnings of memory formation across a broad ...

Its developers have already used it to identify a previously unknown neuron type. Dan is a News Editor at The ... of activity and cell type markers (CRACK), combines calcium imaging microscopy with a ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. “This whole-cell patch method is really the gold standard for looking at synaptic and other events that make a neuron compute,” says Ed Boyden, a ...

Neuron-to-neuron contact points are called ... but also how strong each connection is. While electron microscopy has been used with great success to make visual maps of synaptic connections ...

Synaptic transmission is the biological process by which a neuron communicates with a target ... compatible with immunohistochemistry and expansion microscopy, enable single-vesicle resolution ...