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[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....

  [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,...

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...

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...

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...

  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....