Until today, skin, brain, and all tissues of the human body were difficult to observe in detail with an optical microscope, ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Expansion microscopy is a crucial element of that study, ... “We’re stretching tissues apart." ... “Our hope is to rapidly make maps of entire nervous systems,” Boyden says.

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 ...

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 ...