POSTS TAGGED AS neurobiology

“Fluorescent Nanosensor Paint”

“Fluorescent sensor paint” lights up key markers of Parkinson’s disease
“A research team led by scientists at Germany’s Ruhr University Bochum [MORE]

Transcranial Near-IR Spectroscopy for Locked-In ALS

Oxygen Sensor Locked-in-Syndrome
Can a “locked-in” patient suffering from advanced ALS enjoy life? The question seemed imponderable until Wyss Institute bioengineers [MORE]

An Electronic Tongue

Wine Tasting
For those who don’t remember Graham Chapman’s 1989 hilarious review of Australian table wines (Monty Python’s Flying Circus), here’s [MORE]

Blue Light on Neuron Activity

Professor Won Do Heo Develops Light Sensitive Protein
You’ll have to go to the Nature Communications article cited in this piece [MORE]

Automated Patch Clamping

Boyden Brain Cell Robot
Researchers at MIT and Georgia Tech have developed a robot that automatically advances a glass pipette into [MORE]

Transcriptome Profiling in a Single Living Cell

Eberwine Nature Methods image
It is assumed that cells behave differently in vivo and in vitro, but a University of Pennsylvania [MORE]

Protein-Based Cell Reprogramming

Dr. Kwang-Soo Kim
Kwang-Soo Kim and colleagues at Harvard Medical School recently reported on their work using a protein bath to [MORE]