{"id":224844,"date":"2025-11-10T17:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/high-speed-imaging-tracks-live-brain-cell-activity-in-awake-mice"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:12:22","slug":"high-speed-imaging-tracks-live-brain-cell-activity-in-awake-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/high-speed-imaging-tracks-live-brain-cell-activity-in-awake-mice","title":{"rendered":"High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-speed-imaging-tracks-live-brain-cell-activity-in-awake-mice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a breakthrough in brain imaging by developing the world\u2019s first technology to capture high-resolution images of the brains of awake experimental mice in a nearly noninvasive manner.<\/p>\n<p>By eliminating the need for anesthesia, this innovation enables scientists to study <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+tissue\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain tissue<\/a> in its fully functional state. The advancement promises deeper insights into human brain function in both healthy and diseased conditions, opening new frontiers in neuroscience research.<\/p>\n<p>The study was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-64251-y\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> in a paper titled \u201cRapid adaptive optics enabling near-noninvasive high-resolution brain imaging in awake behaving mice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a breakthrough in brain imaging by developing the world\u2019s first technology to capture high-resolution images of the brains of awake experimental mice in a nearly noninvasive manner. By eliminating the need for anesthesia, this innovation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224844","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=224844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}