(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 ...

Enter Brainbow, the brain-child of Jean Livet, Jeff Lichtman and colleagues from Harvard. ... That opens up a whole realm of possibilities for neuroscientists.

Can adults grow new brain cells? In contrast, Brainbow allows researchers to tag several hundred neurons at once with roughly 90 distinct colors. The resulting images , ...

An improved Brainbow toolbox for expression in the mouse is presented ... A robust and high-throughput Cre reporting and characterization system for the whole mouse brain. Nat. Neurosci. 13 ...

When the mice are then infected with the Brainbow virus, the neural circuits that control blood pressure should be different colors from the rest of the circuits in the brain, he said. "For a minute, ...

Somewhere Over The Brainbow: The Journey To Map the Human Brain The government-funded plan could cost $3 billion, take 10 years and involve hundreds of scientists. The hope is the project can ...

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 ...

Virginia Tech. (2015, August 27). 'Brainbow' reveals surprising data about visual connections in brain. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 08 ...

This approach builds on a brain mapping technique developed just a few years ago at Harvard called Brainbow, which allows scientists to engineer mouse brains with neurons that glow in one of ...

The government-funded plan could cost $3 billion, take 10 years and involve hundreds of scientists. The hope is the project can unlock the secrets of conditions such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia ...