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A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station to help study life's adaptability under extreme conditions ...

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Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the 'powerhouses' of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a ...

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

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How we think, feel, see, talk and move are due to neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain – how they’re activated ... who helped pioneer electron microscopy to study neural connections. With the new ...

It's reconstructed from a large-scale electron microscopy dataset. The cell's output synapses (bright spots) are color-coded (red or cyan) based on the type of cell they're targeting on the other end.