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Researchers create colorful "Brainbow" images of the nervous system

Neurons as works of art and science

October 31, 2007

Steve Bradt
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

By activating multiple fluorescent proteins in neurons, neuroscientists at Harvard University are imaging the brain and nervous system as never before, rendering their cells in a riotous spray of colors dubbed a "Brainbow."

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