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For the first time, scientists have
seen all the cells of a brain region.

Summary:

Brain photography.

A group of physicists and biologists has developed a new microscopy technique that, for the first time, allows us to obtain images of all cells within a certain area of living brain tissue.

Link:

https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/ciencia/cientificos-ven-por-primera-vez-todas-las-celulas-de-una-region-cerebral-articulo-740874

Publication date:

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Scientific field:

Neuroscience

Glossary:

Allow: admit an event or an activity as legal or acceptable.
Improve: make or become better.
Knowledge: facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.
Surrounds: be all around (someone or something).
Tissue: any of the distinct types of material of which animals or plants are made, consisting of specialized cells and their products.

Analysis comment:

Expansion of a neuron where synaptic impulses are seen.

This article explains that for the first time scientist have seen all the cells of a brain region.

It explains too that the microscopy methods existing up to now to investigate the living brain tissue were limited to visualize only the cells previously marked by the scientists, with which, due to technical limitations, not all the cells of a determined brain region could be labeled by the researchers.

On the one hand, now, with the new microscopy technique, scientists can "tag" in a pass the tiny space, full of liquid, that surrounds the brain cells, and so that will avoid having to individually mark all the cells in the area to be analyzed.

On the other hand, this new technique is "revolutionary" because it allows to visualize "simultaneously" all the cells in a certain region of the living brain tissue.

To conclude, this article is a succes for the neuroscience because that will allow to improve the knowledge of the brain and it will allow neuroscientists to see all the cells in the study area that they place under the lens of the microscope, as well as their interactions, which will make it possible to advance in the knowledge of brain functions, "such in the healthy organ as when it becomes ill".

Test where the scientists managed to see all the parts of the brain.