See-through Brain Clarify Connections

A chemical treatment that turns whole organs transparent offers a big boost to the field of ‘connectomics’ — the push to map the brain’s fiendishly complicated wiring. 

Scientists could use the technique to view large networks of neurons with unprecedented ease and accuracy. 

The technology also opens up new research avenues for old brains that were saved from patients and healthy donors.  

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