Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Watch Real-time "Memories" Forming


This is pretty cool. Hopkins neuroscience researcher, Dr. Richard Huganir, and his postdoc, Da-Ting Lin, created a fancy microscope that allows one to easily visualize synaptic memory activity (specifically, insertion of AMPA receptors) as green flashes in the video. Find out more here.

4 comments:

Dinah said...

I don't understand it, but the pictures are really pretty and the revolving brain is cool.

Sunny CA said...

WOW! Amazing! I wonder how they do that on a living subject.

Sarah said...

At any rate, I liked some of the vadlo postdoc cartoons!

Anonymous said...

Ugh, this looks too much like chemistry.

It amazes me how distinct you all are, it takes about two sentences to figure out who wrote each and every post, if not the headline alone.