{"id":128090,"date":"2021-09-25T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/in-a-first-scientists-track-1-million-neurons-near-simultaneously-in-a-mouse-brain"},"modified":"2021-09-25T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T20:22:59","slug":"in-a-first-scientists-track-1-million-neurons-near-simultaneously-in-a-mouse-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/in-a-first-scientists-track-1-million-neurons-near-simultaneously-in-a-mouse-brain","title":{"rendered":"In a First, Scientists Track 1 Million Neurons Near-Simultaneously in a Mouse Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-first-scientists-track-1-million-neurons-near-simultaneously-in-a-mouse-brain.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The key is an innovation that\u2019s being called \u2018light beads microscopy\u2019. It improves on current <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two-photon_excitation_microscopy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two-photon microscopy<\/a>, using lasers to trigger <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GCaMP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced fluorescence<\/a> in living cells. As the cells are lit up, scientists can see how they\u2019re moving and interacting.<\/p>\n<p>With light beads microscopy, scientists can get the speed, scale, and resolution required to map a mouse brain in detail as its neural activity changes. The near-simultaneous tracking can last for as long as the light beads are able to stay illuminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key is an innovation that\u2019s being called \u2018light beads microscopy\u2019. It improves on current two-photon microscopy, using lasers to trigger introduced fluorescence in living cells. As the cells are lit up, scientists can see how they\u2019re moving and interacting. With light beads microscopy, scientists can get the speed, scale, and resolution required to map [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}