http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/4907 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundations/articles/researchers-create-colorful-brainbow-images-nervous-system <!--paging_filter--><p>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."</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundations/articles/researchers-create-colorful-brainbow-images-nervous-system">read more</a></p> Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:07:16 -0400 404132862 7662 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/accelerating-science-with-innovative-computing <!--paging_filter--><p>How daunting a task is it, in an age when it is possible to visualize structures and to see them at magnifications not even dreamed of a short time ago, to produce a "wiring diagram" of the human brain?</p><p>It is an extreme challenge when one considers that the amount of information that needs to be gathered, manipulated, and analyzed is "equal to all the written materials in all the libraries in the world," Jeff Lichtman, professor of molecular and cellular biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, explained to those attending the inaugural symposium of Harvard's new Initiative in Innovative Computing.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/accelerating-science-with-innovative-computing">read more</a></p> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:31:17 -0400 50443248 7515 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu