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Bright Lights, Cool Science

Photo Credit: Jennifer Peters, Ph.D., and Michael Taylor, Ph.D. at the Cell and Tissue Imaging Center at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

This may look like a tangle of holiday lights, but it’s actually a peek inside  the developing brain of a live zebrafish. NIH-supported researchers created this award-winning picture by labeling the brain’s

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The Symphony Inside Your Brain

Ever wonder what is it that makes you, you? Depending on whom you ask, there are a lot of different answers, but these days some of the world’s top neuroscientists might say: “You are your connectome.”

Grid of major pathways in human brain’s left hemisphere. Using diffraction spectrum imaging, which tracks movement of water through

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