This week's
Images from Around the Lab were submitted from a neurobiology lab at the National Institutes of Health.
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Scientists manipulate a frog
oocyte (read: really big cell) using a technique called patch clamp recording. With this quad patch clamp, scientists can inject currents of different concentrations and voltages across a cell membrane.
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Images of a cell after it has been injected with a tracer.
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Awesome images, that set up is rediculous!!!
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