ScanImage®software from MBF Bioscience, along with the accompanying vDAQTM acquisition and control card with analog to digital, digital to analog, breakout board, is built to control many combinations of hardware in order to carry out in-vivo imaging on a cellular scale. This makes it possible to observe the neural activities, such as those indicated by calcium concentration or voltage changes, of specific neuronal types...
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We are pleased to announce that the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) has endorsed the MBF Bioscience neuromorphological file format as a standard. The file format is used in our products for neuroscience research for important applications such as digital neuron tracing, brain mapping and stereological analyses. MBF Bioscience products, including Neurolucida, Neurolucida 360, Stereo Investigator, Vesselucida 360, Tissue Mapper and NeuroInfo use this neuromorphological file...
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Dr. Bob Jacobs has traced his 5,000th and final neuron. “It’s a good stopping point I think,” says the long-time MBF Bioscience customer, collaborator, and friend, who is retiring from research in December. [caption id="attachment_7483" align="alignright" width="373"] Dr. Bob Jacobs in the lab[/caption] Dr. Jacobs has made significant advances in the fields of neuroanatomy and neuroethology over the course of his 30-year career. And the team...
Read MoreThe human brain is a complex wonderland of blood vessels, neurons, axons, and dendrites. Thanks to a century of technological advancements, there are myriad possibilities available to navigate this extraordinary organ. Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century is a new book by Carl Schoonover a PhD candidate in neuroscience at Columbia University that details this fascinating technological evolution....
Read MoreThe Senate appropriations labor, health, and human services subcommittee approved a $1 billion increase for the NIH in 2011, bumping the agency by 3.5% over its 2010 budget to $32 billion. Both House and Senate bills will go to the full appropriations committees before the two houses meet to work out a compromise bill. A vote on the final bill is not expected until after the...
Read MoreScientists explain the neurological process for the recognition of letters and numbers "We analyzed the influence of the context given by a word when linking the physical traits of its components to the abstract representations of letters," explains to SINC Nicola Molinaro, main author of the study and researcher of the Basque Research Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL)....
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ScienceDaily (2010-07-21) -- Researchers found that a combination of nutrients called NT-020 promoted adult neural stem cell proliferation in aged rats and boosted their memory and spatial navigation performance. They tested two groups of aged laboratory rats; one group received NT-020 and a control group did not. In the NT-020 treated group, neurogenesis increased and researchers concluded that the NT-020 treated group had fewer activated...
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Vermont's young scientists showed off their brainpower last month at the state's first Brain Bee. Hosted at the University of Vermont in Burlington, the competition included 19 students from five Vermont high schools. The young scientists answered questions on human neuroanatomy, neurohistology, and patient diagnoses. MBF Bioscience is a proud sponsor of the event. "It is so important to support the education of young people in...
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Optogenetics is a fairly new scientific field that combines optical stimulation with genetic engineering. According to a recent article in Wired magazine, neuroscientist, psychologist, and MBF Bioscience customer Dr. Karl Deisseroth and his team of researchers at Stanford University are making major optogenetic advancements - the kind that might lead to a cure for Parkinson's Disease. It all began in 1979, when one of the discoverers...
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We've been working with the scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for years, so we were delighted to hear that two of the research facility's neuroscientists were recently awarded a new type of grant from the National Institute of Health called the "Transformative R01" grant. Professor Partha Mitra, Ph.D., received this grant for the project "The Missing Circuit: The First Brainwide Connectivity Map for Mouse," and...
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