{"id":221833,"date":"2025-09-13T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/mini-microscope-enables-real-time-3d-brain-imaging-in-freely-moving-mice"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:12:16","slug":"mini-microscope-enables-real-time-3d-brain-imaging-in-freely-moving-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/mini-microscope-enables-real-time-3d-brain-imaging-in-freely-moving-mice","title":{"rendered":"Mini microscope enables real-time 3D brain imaging in freely moving mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mini-microscope-enables-real-time-3d-brain-imaging-in-freely-moving-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have created a miniaturized microscope for real-time, high-resolution, noninvasive imaging of brain activity in mice. The device is a significant step toward revolutionizing how neuroscientists study the brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are doing is creating technology to image brain activity in freely moving and behaving mice to open up the behavior paradigm,\u201d said Weijian Yang, professor of electrical and computer engineering. \u201cThe goal is to create a device capable of enabling research into brain activity and behavior in mice in real time\u2014to see how brain activity drives behavior or perception.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The microscope will advance insights into how the brain works, which is expected to benefit human health by empowering the development of new and improved therapeutic strategies for brain disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have created a miniaturized microscope for real-time, high-resolution, noninvasive imaging of brain activity in mice. The device is a significant step toward revolutionizing how neuroscientists study the brain. \u201cWhat we are doing is creating technology to image brain activity in freely moving and behaving mice to open up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221833","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}