What do you get when you cross a day job as a Medical Histopathologist with an interest in 3D printing and programming? You get a fully-baked Open Source microscope ...

The Sutter BOB — designed to eliminate the conventional microscope frame—is a simple, open-design upright microscope platform ideal for slice electrophysiology, wide field functional imaging, two ...

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Modern microscopes used for biological imaging are expensive, are located in specialized laboratories and require highly qualified staff. To research novel, creative approaches to address urgent ...

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has developed a new multiphoton microscopy tool, known as Pysight, for rapid 2D and 3D imaging of the brain and other tissues. Among other things ...

Modern microscopes used for biological imaging are expensive, are located in specialized laboratories and require highly qualified staff. To research novel, creative approaches to address urgent ...

"Our dream was to invent a window into the brain, so we could see what happens inside when we’re thinking, planning, feeling, and remembering,” says Professor May-Britt Moser, describing conversations ...

Researchers have developed an open-source microscope that can track a freely swimming zebrafish while also imaging fluorescently labeled cells in its brain. Credit: Barth van Rossum Discerning the ...

The microscopes, known as mesoSPIMs - short for 'mesoscale selective plane-illumination microscopes' can image brain tissues down to the minute details of individual neurons which are five times ...

Open-source developers have long done their work in the public eye. Now, they're doing it under an academic microscope. Walt Scacchi, a senior research scientist at the University of California at ...