{"id":233428,"date":"2026-03-16T22:15:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/rna-barcodes-fast-track-brain-connection-mapping"},"modified":"2026-03-16T22:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:15:28","slug":"rna-barcodes-fast-track-brain-connection-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/rna-barcodes-fast-track-brain-connection-mapping","title":{"rendered":"RNA barcodes fast-track brain connection mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rna-barcodes-fast-track-brain-connection-mapping.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen engineering a computer, you need to know the circuitry of the central processing unit. If you don\u2019t know how everything is wired together, you can\u2019t understand its function, optimize it or fix it when something breaks. We are approaching the brain the same way,\u201d said study leader Boxuan Zhao, a professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur technology enables simultaneous mapping of thousands of neural connections with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2023-01-field-neuroscience-aims-brain.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">single-synapse resolution <\/a>\u2014a capability that doesn\u2019t exist in any current technology. It is directly applicable to understanding circuit dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases and could provide a platform for developing circuit-guided therapeutic interventions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen engineering a computer, you need to know the circuitry of the central processing unit. If you don\u2019t know how everything is wired together, you can\u2019t understand its function, optimize it or fix it when something breaks. We are approaching the brain the same way,\u201d said study leader Boxuan Zhao, a professor of cell and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233428","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=233428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}