Flashing Fish Brains Filmed in Action
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 16:31
in Biology & Nature
At first glance, it looks like an oddly shaped campfire: smoky grey shapes light up with red sparks and flashes. But the video actually represents a different sort of crackle -- the activity of individual neurons across a larval fish brain. It is the first time that researchers have been able to image an entire vertebrate brain at the level of single cells. [More]