Day: August 26, 2026

Publication Highlight: Mapping the Pacinian Corpuscle’s Touch-Sensing Architecture with the Compresstome

A new study from Yale University, published in Science Advances (Ziolkowski et al.), overturns a decades-old model of how the Pacinian corpuscle, the receptor responsible for detecting transient touch and high-frequency vibration in skin, actually works. Led by Elena Gracheva and Sviatoslav Bagriantsev, the team used the Compresstome to prepare tissue for high-resolution electron microscopy, […]

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