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Original Research Article in eLife:
Quantitative and functional interrogation of parent-of-origin allelic expression biases in the brain.
By Perez, Rubinstein et al. July 3, 2015.
Harvard Gazette: Expanding the Brain. By Peter Reuell, July 29, 2015.
Read moreA new review explains how different methods of tissue clearing work
Imaging biological tissues is always a challenge because they are three dimensional, and issues of light scatter make it hard to clearly view deeper structures without cutting sections. Neuroscientists have long been interested in methods for “clearing” - or making more transparent -brain tissue so it is easier to image intact.
“I think as a neuroscientist there’s no part of the body where clearing is potentially more influential in moving forward,” says Jeff Lichtman, a professor of molecular and cellular biology and Conte lab head who teaches microscopy at Harvard and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
Read moreAired May 25th 2015. Features Catherine Dulac of our center in addition to Eric Kandel, Susanne Shultz, Charles Nelson, Margaret Spinelli and David Levine.
Aired June 16th 2015. Features Catherine Dulac of our center in addition to Eric Kandel, Ben Barres, Norman Spack, Melissa Hines and Janet Hyde.
Read moreHarvard Medical School News: FISHing For Insight >>
Story by Stephanie Dutchen, May 21st. New method for visualizing chromosomes in astonishing detail, developed by Ting Wu's lab in collaboration with Xiawei Zhuang and Peng Yin's groups, published May 12 in Nature Communications.
Read moreBBC World Service:The Forum – Plasticity >>
Aired May 19th. Features Takao Hensch of our center talking about brain plasticity alongside an artist who works with plastics from garbage and a nanochemist who considers plasticity at the level of atoms and electrons. Host Bridget Kendall.
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