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Sugar solution turns embryos and brains see-through, allows for high-res imaging

2013-06-25 15:46:10| Extremetech

A team of neuroscientists at the RIKEN institute in Japan have created a liquid, primarily fashioned out of fructose sugar, that turns flesh transparent. This aqueous solution, called SeeDB, has been successfully used by the researchers to make mouse embryos and brains transparent without damaging any of the fine structures within the samples. The researchers were then able to visualize the entire neuronal circuitry of a mouse brain on a whole-brain scale, without having to first cut it into slices -- an important first for neuroscience.

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GF2045: Brains, avatars, androids, and the future of humanity

2013-06-19 17:21:40| Extremetech

This past weekend in the New York arguably the most important conference of the year, Global Future 2045, was held. This might sound like an overstatement but no other conference exists that states grander goals, and then tries to chart the path to those goals through science.

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Nvidia's graphics brawn powers supercomputing brains

2013-06-18 09:00:00| CNET News.com

The company's graphics chips are finding a foothold in neural networks, a biology-inspired form of computing that is moving from research to commercial tasks like Google's photo recognition. [Read more]

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Transparent brains and a revolution of studying every organ and tissue

2013-04-11 16:09:43| Extremetech

Yesterday, Stanford researcher Karl Deisseroth and his lab published the most detailed images of whole mouse brains that we have seen to date. To understand how this was achieved, we need look no further than a few techniques that have already been used for decades in the labs of neuroscientists and biochemists.

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