Bert Sakmann
Physiologist
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Bert Sakmann is a German physiologist who invented the patch clamp technique.
Together with Erwin Neher, he tried out extracellular pipettes for the recording of elementary events in ion channels of denervated muscle fibers. They succeeded in patch clamp recordings, which allowed them to investigate almost any type of channel in almost every cell type. They received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1991, for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells.
The patch clamp technique is used by scientists of the ByAxon project to record the changes in voltage across the cell membranes, known as action potentials. Since the patch-clamp is an invasive method, ByAxon project aims to detect the magnetic signals in a non-invasive manner.
Physiologist
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Bert Sakmann is a German physiologist who invented the patch clamp technique.
Together with Erwin Neher, he tried out extracellular pipettes for the recording of elementary events in ion channels of denervated muscle fibers. They succeeded in patch clamp recordings, which allowed them to investigate almost any type of channel in almost every cell type. They received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1991, for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells.
The patch clamp technique is used by scientists of the ByAxon project to record the changes in voltage across the cell membranes, known as action potentials. Since the patch-clamp is an invasive method, ByAxon project aims to detect the magnetic signals in a non-invasive manner.
