Expansion microscopy empowers scientists to see life’s smallest components—and it keeps getting better.
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Expansion microscopy empowers scientists to see life’s smallest components—and it keeps getting better.
New methods light up lipid membranes and let researchers see sets of proteins inside cells with high resolution.
Full story at MIT’s McGovern Institute
MIT scientists find that a new MRI method does not directly detect neural activity as originally reported.
Breast cancer cells undergo dangerous reprogramming within passageways that connect tumors to the bloodstream.
Real-time imaging of messenger RNA reveals surprising variability in the way cells’ splicing machinery processes these molecules.
Full story at National Cancer Institute
Teaching a computer to recognize different parts of neurons improves automated methods of tracing the cells and their connections.
Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Rather than pursuing traditional post-docs, some scientists start their own labs soon after completing graduate school.
Full story at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus