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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 23:33:25 -0800 (PST)
From: John K Clark <>
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On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 Joseph Strout <> Wrote:


        >even with a top-notch confocal (which I use all the time), you can't
        
        >make out individual synapses.  They're just too small to see with
                >visible light. 
        

That must be a problem of contrast not resolution. Camillo Golgi discovered 
the Synapse by staining nerve cells with silver salts, he got the Nobel Prize 
for it in 1906. He certainly didn't have an electron microscope or even a 
confocal.                                           

                                             John K Clark    


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