Real estate is the shiny star of Palm Beach County s economy these days, but biotechnology is starting to percolate, too.
After months of delays, Beacon Pharmaceutical Jupiter finally is moving forward with a plan to develop a $150 million biotech incubator and manufacturing center in the town. The facility would be built on nine acres of town-owned land, just west of Florida s Turnpike on Indiantown Road.
Meanwhile, Alphazyme a company that makes custom, molecular biology enzymes recently inked a deal to lease 22,000 square feet of research space at the Institute for Healthy Living in Jupiter.
That s according to Ray Graziotto, who owns the rights to develop a life sciences incubator in the space. The incubator is part of the Institute, a never-opened senior living and rehab center on the east side of Central Boulevard just north of Donald Ross Road and across from Scripps Florida.
ZEISS announces collaborative research partnership with Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Date Announced: 15 Jan 2021
LSM 980 NLO confocal microscope with GRIN lenses in combination with Airyscan 2 to be used in deep brain functional neuroscience research.
White Plains, NY, USA ZEISS announces that it has formed a research collaboration partnership with the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI). Using an LSM 980 NLO next generation confocal microscope supplied by ZEISS, MPFI will investigate using implanted GRadient INdex (GRIN) lenses in combination with the Airyscan 2 area detector for deep brain functional neuroscience research.
Airyscan 2, an area detector with 32 concentrically arranged detection elements, provides a unique combination of gentle super-resolution imaging and high sensitivity. Combining Airyscan with GRIN lens technology enables increased resolution and signal-to-noise while imaging regions of the brain that are unreachable with tr
Novel method reveals the synaptic basis for feature selectivity
A common analogy used to describe the brain is that it consists of tiny interconnected computers. Each one of these computers, or neurons, process and relay activity from thousands of other neurons, forming complex networks that allow us to perceive our surroundings, make decisions, and guide our actions. Communication between neurons occurs through tiny connections called synapses, and each neuron integrates the activity across these synapses to form a single output signal.
However, not all synapses are created equal. Synapses converging onto an individual neuron differ in size, and size is correlated with strength: larger synapses are stronger and have a greater influence on a neuron s output than smaller synapses. But why are some synapses stronger than others, and how does this impact individual neurons processing incoming signals?
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IMAGE: Multiphoton imaging in vivo provides measures of synaptic activity and function (left), while electron microscopy (right) performed on the same neuron provides structural information at the nanometer scale view more
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
A common analogy used to describe the brain is that it consists of tiny interconnected computers. Each one of these computers, or neurons, process and relay activity from thousands of other neurons, forming complex networks that allow us to perceive our surroundings, make decisions, and guide our actions. Communication between neurons occurs through tiny connections called synapses, and each neuron integrates the activity across these synapses to form a single output signal. However, not all synapses are created equal. Synapses converging onto an individual neuron differ in size, and size is correlated with strength: larger synapses are stronger and have a greater influence on a neuron s