It ’s difficult to believe it , but it took just three days marinating in a sugar - body of water root to turn the unintelligible tissue paper depict on the left into the percipient exemplar on the right .
Called See Deep Brain ( SeeDB ) , the newfangled technique uses a combining of fructose , weewee and low amounts of other chemical substance to reduce the amount of scattering that pass when easy passes through biological tissue . describe in detail in this week’sNature Neuroscience , the technique will set aside scientists to poke into the interior workings of the brain and other organ .
There have been a few other methods proposed for what ’s now become sleep with as “ visual clearing ” , but what ’s keen about SeeDB is that it ’s compatible with the dyes that are often used to decipher neurons in tissue preserved in formaldehyde . As well as , you know , being non - toxic , which is also handy . Soon , then , scientist will be optically peer through sample distribution without have to chop them up — and that could yield all kinds of exciting result . [ Nature NeuroscienceviaScience ]
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