Dr. Akiko Yanagiya, Dr. Dina Mostafa, and Professor Tadashi Yamamoto.

Brain slices of older tissues prepared with ice-cold (blue) and warm (red) preparation methods, as demonstrated by Shiwei Huang and Marylka Yoe Uusisaari in a paper in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. The asterisks (*) indicate visible neurons. While no healthy neurons are visible in the left image, seven are visible in the right. Abbreviations: PN, Purkinje neuron layer; ML, molecular layer; GrC, granular cell layer.

Alexander Badrutdinov using a microscope to take a close look at a prototype developed by the lithography system.

OIST researcher Emi Furukawa, center; Jorge Moll, second from left; Patricia Bado, middle; Paulo Mattos, right with colleagues at IDOR in Rio de Janeiro.

Masako Nakamura

Members of the PhysioDesigner development team: Yoshiyuki Asai (right) and Takeshi Abe (left). Mr. Abe is mainly responsible for developing a simulator for encoded models of physiological functions.