Scientists Turn Brain Transparent To Get A Better Look [VIDEO]

Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new way of looking at the brain – they make the brain tissue almost transparent. A series of chemical treatments replaces the fatty lipid membranes which surrounds cells with an acrylamide mesh. This mesh is see-through, and leaves the microscopic details intact.

Before this new development, neuroscientists had to cut a brain into ultr-thin slices in an attempt to visualise such features. But this method cuts the cable-like axons which carry signals from one part of the brain to another, which is not idealio.

[Source: Wired, YouTube]

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