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.

No definitive electron microscopic localization of catecholamines has been achieved due to the lack of a specific fine-structural technique.

A new kind of microscope has been developed: it creates 2D light sheets, penetrating biological tissues and causing special molecules to fluoresce. For the microscope to work, the tissue has to be ...

The ability to detect and characterize microscopic structural changes in tissue opens new possibilities for early cancer detection to improve patient outcomes.

The story of neuroscience had many twists and turns that were fuelled by new inventions, competing theories, and bitter rivalries. Here is a brief history of neuroscience.

Trinity College Dublin now has Ireland's first and only BioBrillouin microscope, which will enable researchers to make giant ...

This leaves the remaining tissue, including the bones, transparent, enabling much clearer, crisper microscope images.

The process, called uDisco, provides an alternate way for researchers to study an organism’s nervous system without having to slice into sections of its organs or tissues.

Now, in a study published March 1, 2019 in the journal Science, Kornberg's lab has found that a chemical that acts as a neurotransmitter in the nervous system is also essential for cytonemes to ...

Microscopic revolution Two key inventions revolutionised our understanding of the nervous system: The microscope and chemical staining. Microscope designed and used by Robert Hooke in 1665.