Around that time, perhaps influenced by the predominant metaphor, German anatomist Joseph von Gerlach looked at nervous tissue through his microscope and saw the tangle of fibers—a reticulum.

News on nervous tissue. Date. 6 hours 12 hours 1 day 3 days all. Rank. Last day 1 ... have unveiled unprecedentedly detailed images of brain cancer tissue through the use of a new microscopy ...

Non-invasive live imaging of activity across networks of neurons has benefited greatly from recent advances in both neurogenetics and microscopy, and images gathered across substantial tissue volumes ...

For the microscope to work, the tissue has to be made transparent, ... High-resolution ultramicroscopy of the developing and adult nervous system in optically cleared Drosophila melanogaster.

Injury to the central nervous system (CNS) alters the molecular and cellular composition of neural tissue and leads to glial scarring, which inhibits the regrowth of damaged axons. Mammalian glial ...

In contrast, XNH exposes a rotating tissue sample to high-energy x-rays at the ESRF's synchrotron, which accelerates electrons to near-light speed around an 844-meter ring. Related Stories ...

Neuroscientists have developed a way to turn an entire mouse, including its muscles and internal organs, transparent while illuminating the nerve paths that run throughout its body. The process ...

By contrast, using an electron microscope to map a mouse brain from tissue slices would take about 50 years, and a human brain 1000 years, Ertürk says. He hopes to eventually map an entire human ...

Behold the entire nervous system of a mouse, revealed in unprecedented detail by turning the animal’s body completely transparent. This technique could help us better understand the workings of ...