We're pleased to announce that MBF Bioscience has been selected as one of the "Best Places to Work in Vermont" for the third time in a row. The list of fifteen companies is compiled by Best Companies Group in an effort to recognize excellence among state employers. Companies are evaluated based on the benefits they provide and their levels of employee engagement and satisfaction. We'll...
Read MoreSince the release of Neurolucida and Stereo Investigator 9 in October, we have received positive feedback from our customers. We were so pleased to get this note from Dr. Gabriella Ugolini of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Gif-Sur-Yvette, France. “I am really enthusiastic about the improvements that you have made in Version 9 to Neurolucida and Stereo Investigator. Now navigating through the sections...
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If you start smoking as a teen, it’s much harder to quit. University of Vermont Neurobiologist Rae Nishi wants to find out why. And thanks to a $1 million Challenge Grant, Nishi and her team will be able to further study the way adolescent brains react to nicotine. The grant is one of 200 National Institute of Health grants allocated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment...
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It is possible to image the brain of a single fruit fly, but how about 100? This is what, MBF Bioscience Customer and Assistant Professor of Biology at Stanford University, Mark Schnitzer, would like to do. In an interview published in the October 16 issue of Science, Schnitzer explained that "massive brain imaging" would revolutionize brain research by allowing neuroscientists to simultaneously study multiple flies of...
Read MoreStress is something we’d all like to have a little less of. Though it is a natural, genetic response that allows us to adapt to various situations, stress can certainly impede upon daily life. If allowed to reach chronic levels, stress can "cause damage and accelerate disease," one of the main points of Dr. Bruce McEwen’s 2002 book The End of Stress As We Know...
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A year ago, the neuroscience community mourned the death of Henry Gustav Molaison. Now, led by Dr. Jacobo Annese, scientists at The Brain Observatory at the University of California San Diego are spending over 30 hours sectioning his brain into histological sections. More commonly known as Patient H.M., Molaison had undergone an experimental brain operation in 1953 to correct a seizure disorder. The surgery resulted 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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MBF Bioscience President Jack Glaser appears on the cover of this month's Business People-Vermont magazine. Read the informative feature article "Microscopic Vision" to find out how MBF Bioscience got its start, and how researchers like neuroscientist Henry Markram, are using our products today to make important advances in a range of scientific fields. {Photo by Brad Pettengill, courtesy of Business People-Vermont}...
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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...
Read MoreThis year's Society for Neuroscience Meeting was another great success. We were thrilled to visit with so many of our current and prospective customers, and to demonstrate the latest features of our software. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to try out Stereo Investigator and Neurolucida 9 and AutoNeuron 4, and to those who attended our practical workshops. If you didn't have the chance...
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