[caption id="" align="alignright" width="189"] Overall view of the computer microscope developed by Drs. van der Loos and Glaser (circa 1965).[/caption] Prior to the computer microscope era, quantitative neuro-anatomical studies were performed using the camera lucida method, an optical method allowing the scientist to see the neurons as if reflected on the piece of paper on which she will trace. These studies were painstaking and extremely time-consuming....
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[caption id="attachment_3412" align="aligncenter" width="238"] Original figures published with permission from Dr. Ed Glaser[/caption] In 1963, Dr. Ed Glaser (co-founder of MBF Bioscience) and Dr. Hendrik van der Loos were at the John Hopkins Medical School putting the final touches on the first computer microscope, an analog computer connected to a light microscope. It was described as a system for attaching X-Y-Z transducers to a microscope stage,...
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Thirty-six high school students passionate about neuroscience will be competing at the 4th annual Vermont Brain Bee on February 9th, 2013 at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Participants will be asked questions about a wide variety of topics: anatomy and development, learning and memory, stress, types of research, neurogenerative disorders, etc. They will also get the opportunity to engage in neuroscience activities and...
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MBF Bioscience was featured in an episode of Emerging Science, a television series that features Vermont scientists who expand human knowledge and help solve problems around the world. The episode explored the link between traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder in military personnel coming back from war. MBF Bioscience President Jack Glaser and Staff Scientist Susan Hendricks give us some perspective from a research standpoint...
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Long-time MBF customers at the University of Rochester Medical Center are considered leading experts in researching myelin diseases. They recently published a review article in Science titled “Glial Progenitor Cell-Based treatment and Modeling of Neurological Disease” in which they featured output from Stereo Investigator in the Figure 2 section to illustrate chimeric brains. {Glial Progenitor Cell–Based Treatment and Modeling of Neurological Disease Steven A. Goldman, Maiken Nedergaard, and Martha S....
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In the early 1960s, our company co-founder Dr. Edmund Glaser and his long time collaborator and friend Dr. Hendrik Van der Loos made some sketches on a paper tablecloth in the faculty dining room at John Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore Maryland. That early diagram of a microscope included novel elements like transducers and a mechanical stage, and gave shape to their ideas about a faster way...
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Dr. Daniel Peruzzi, staff scientist, shares his thoughts below: Customers often ask Staff Scientists at MBF Bioscience why it is sometimes difficult to reproduce certain published stereological results. For example, we get the question, “The estimates that I make of cell number in the region I’m researching do not match numbers reported in the literature. Can you help me understand why?” To solve this dilemma, we encourage...
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A Vermont Public Television crew brought several cameras into our Williston office today to learn more about MBF Bioscience and Henry Markram, a long time customer of MBF. Dr. Markram, director of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, is using Neurolucida to create a complete simulation of the 89 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections in the human brain by 2023....
Read More We were honored to receive the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf's 16th Annual Ben Blood Anti-Hunger Award last week. For over ten years MBF Bioscience has supported the organization, which provides fresh produce, bread, and groceries to Vermont families in need. “I have seen how beneficial the food shelf's work is,” said MBF Bioscience President Jack Glaser. “They provide a really important service to people who are...
Read MoreDr. Henry Markram has modeled a million neurons and a billion synapses since launching The Blue Brain Project six years ago, he said in a recent interview in Science. His ultimate goal is to create a detailed supercomputer model of the brain complete with every last pathway. The first step, the Switzerland based neuroscientist and longtime MBF Bioscience customer says, is to develop an automated...
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