To tease apart brain regions involved in forming versus remembering memories, scientists engineered mice whose brain cells could be manipulated and tagged.
The Scientist and The Scientist Staff | Oct 25, 2017 | 1 min read
Scientists are using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to tag and explore specific sets of neurons in mice, in one of the first steps towards building a comprehensive atlas of brain circuitry.
Researchers use a cutting-edge technique to map the blood vessels of brain tumors as patients are awake during surgery with the hope of reducing damage to adjacent tissues.
This slice from the hypothalamus of a mouse shows star-shape brain cells called astrocytes (green) expressing HDAC5 (red), a histone deacetylase involved in regulating feeding behavior.