(Medical Xpress)—The breakthrough technique that allowed scientists to obtain one-of-a-kind, colorful images of the myriad connections in the brain and nervous system is about to get a significant ...

Brainbow works by inserting into neurons three genes that direct the production of blue, green and red fluorescent proteins. There are some 90 possible hues that can be made from different ...

Harvard neurobiologist Jeff Lichtman isn’t being humble when he suggests that he knows almost nothing about the brain. He and the team at his eponymous lab are using the most powerful microscope on ...

Diagrams of the Brain Paint a Colorful 'Brainbow' Researchers have developed a new technique to label individual neurons in the brain in different colors. This method, which the scientists have dubbed ...

This is a fruit fly brain labeled in different colors using the Brainbow method that allows researchers to distinguish one neuron from another. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

Neuroscientists know that some connections in the brain are pruned through neural development. Function gives rise to structure, according to the textbooks. But scientists at the Virginia Tech ...

Image of the Day: Flashy Fluorescent Fish Neurons in a larval zebrafish are distinguished using the Brainbow method, in which different ratios of a handful of colored fluorescent proteins are ...

Rainbows present the eye with a color splash. Brainbow, a molecular technique developed by a Harvard University team including neurobiologist Joshua Sanes, visually labels neurons in pointillistic ...