A 3D Look Into The Brain

From stanfordmedicine

You will probably never get the chance to take a picture like this, but new imaging technology developed at the Stanford University School of Medicine has been able to capture the synapses connections in the [mouse] brain in unprecedented detail.

In the video, we are looking at a visual reconstruction (from array-tomography data) of synapses in the mouse somatosensory cortex, the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsive to sensation. Neurons are depicted in green; multicolored dots represent separate synapses. A synapse is less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

The imaging technology works by combining high-resolution photography with specialized fluorescent molecules that bind to different proteins and glow in different colors. Massive computing power captures this information and converts it into imagery.

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