User stories: Neuroscience

Looking at the neuronal cells in the hydrogel with two-photon microscopy.

July 21, 2025

International collaboration to support Parkinson’s disease research

Would learning to use the most cutting-edge imaging instruments help you answer your scientific question? Could world-class technology accelerate your research? We spoke to…

May 9, 2025

Virtual histology for a multi-modal human brainstem atlas

What is the best imaging approach to build a human brainstem atlas? Dr. Gisela Hagberg, a senior scientist…

April 4, 2025

Looking at hidden language in our minds

Linda Krahula Doleží is an assistant professor at the Language Centre at the Masaryk University in Brno. She did her PhD on Czech syntax…

February 24, 2025

Understanding the neurological mechanisms that contribute to obesity

Obesity is increasingly an acute public health issue in industrialised countries. According to WHO, in 2022, 1 in 8 people in the world were…

Example of intracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) calcifications as visualized on axial non-contrast computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain (yellow arrow on the left).

February 12, 2025

Imaging vascular calcifications in the brain, a collaboration spanning continents and millennia

What could be more fascinating than to explore the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in populations as diverse as ancient mummies, modern Americans, and people…

November 2023 cover of Cell Reports featuring imaging work done at Euro-BioImaging's Brno Node.

December 4, 2023

Motor neuron development revealed using multiple imaging techniques and 3D reconstructions

Dr. Alena Salašová is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University (AU). Her work focuses on neurodevelopment, in particular, understanding the…

November 15, 2023

An open source image analysis tool for studying neuroinflammation linked to COVID-19

COVID-19 infection has been associated with many neurological manifestations, from neuroinflammation to impaired brain energy metabolism. In the Turku PET Centre, which is part…

Photo during Carolina's visit to the Dutch High Field Imaging Node

May 19, 2023

Understanding Phantom Limb Pain

Phantom Limb Pain (PLP), i.e., the pain perceived in an amputated body part, is a very debilitating condition for amputated patients. However, its origin…

Experimental schema. Image courtesy of Shiladitya Mitra, Laboratory of Neurobiology of Stress Resilience, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

May 5, 2023

Analyze large-scale light-sheet microscopy images of the brain

Want to analyze and annotate your sample with the Allen Brain Atlas but don’t have the hardware, software or know-how…

Cytoskeletal dynamics during microglia efferocytosis (microglia in magenta, F-actin in green). Image data are available in the BioImage Archive (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-archive) under accession number S-BIAD564.

December 5, 2022

Neuroscience: New microglia dataset available on BioImage Archive

Katrín Möller is a post-doctoral researcher at Biomedical Center of the University of Iceland, where she studies epigenetics and neuronal development. She’s just published…

September 29, 2022

Potential of functional neuroimaging techniques for understanding long-term effects of COVID-19

Euro-BioImaging is organizing an online User Forum on October 6, 2022, from 14:00-17:00 CEST. This event will highlight the importance of cutting-edge imaging technologies…

Andrew Boyce with the 3D-STED microscope at France BioImaging.

June 29, 2022

Using super resolution live cell imaging to understand cell death during stroke

Scientists have made extraordinary progress in understanding stroke and the effects it has in the brain, but are still exploring the finer details of…