Harvard neurobiologist Jeff Lichtman isn’t being humble when he suggests that he knows almost nothing about the brain. He and the team at his eponymous lab are using the most powerful microscope on ...

While its free-flowing forms are like something that might hang in a modern art gallery, this remarkable multicoloured image is not an artwork. In fact it shows the results of some of the latest ...

This method, which the scientists have dubbed 'brainbow,' could help shed light on brain function in a way that traditional staining methods don't allow. Jeff Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D., professor of ...

Neuroscientists know that some connections in the brain are pruned through neural development. Function gives rise to structure, according to the textbooks. But scientists at the Virginia Tech ...

This is a fruit fly brain labeled in different colors using the Brainbow method that allows researchers to distinguish one neuron from another. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

Science Snapshot Image of the Day: Flashy Fluorescent Fish Neurons in a larval zebrafish are distinguished using the Brainbow method, in which different ratios of a handful of colored fluorescent ...

Rainbows present the eye with a color splash. Brainbow, a molecular technique developed by a Harvard University team including neurobiologist Joshua Sanes, visually labels neurons in pointillistic ...

Visualizing neural structures is notoriously tricky. Although neurons vary considerably in morphology, they often are large cells with complicated processes that are delicately interwoven with each ...