Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new approach to broadly survey learning-related changes in synapse properties. In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience and featured ...

Electron microscopy images of human neuron synapses 7 or 14 days after a 30-minute exposure to tau oligomers or vehicle control. In vehicle-treated neurons synaptic vesicles (red circles) are ...

Compared to traditional electron microscopy, it lowers both cost and technical barriers. "At the current resolution of the images—20 nanometers—synapses can already be identified. We managed to ...

Unlocking the intricate secrets of the human brain's inner workings has long been a pursuit of scientific inquiry. In a groundbreaking study by Shapson-Coe et al., researchers utilized cutting-edge ...

Representative cryo-electron microscopy image: a coloured image of the 3D structure of gephyrin, which was calculated from the data. A team of scientists from the University of Cologne’s Institute of ...