Making a living brain transparent and watching its neurons fire without disturbing their function—sounds like science fiction, doesn't it? Yet the solution may already exist within our own bodies. In ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. When a dye called tartrazine is added to food, it creates a bright ...

Tissue optical clearing is a fundamental technique that enhances light penetration deep into biological samples by reducing light scattering through refractive index homogenization. This process ...

A new nanobody-based method, POD-nAb/FT-GO 3D-IHC, enables ultra-fast, high-resolution labeling of neurons and glia deep within 1-mm-thick brain tissue, revealing cellular structures in just three ...