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When I visited the lab Deisseroth, Jenelle Wallace, one student, took me to a ledge where there were half a dozen bottles. He lifted one of them and told me in the background a mouse brain the size beard czar of a grape. Actually I did not see the brain, but through it, as it was transparent as a glass marble.
Needless to say that every normal, human or mouse brain, is opaque, because their cells are involved in fat and other compounds preventing the passage of light. For that reason Ramón y Cajal had to dye the neurons to see them, and the group Lichtman and Allen Institute scientists have to cut into very thin sections brains to access inside. The advantage of a transparent brain is that it allows to observe its mechanisms still intact organ. In collaboration with postdoctoral researcher Kwanghun Chung,5 out of 5 from 1 reviews