Glowing Protein Reveals Brain Activity
Glowing Protein Reveals Brain Activity – With the help of a protein, researchers now have a more precise way to see brain activity — right down to what’s going on in a single cell, in living brains.
A team of researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland has found a protein that binds to calcium particles in the brain and changes color from green to red as the brain cells become active. The protein is called CaMPARI, for “calcium modulated photoactivatable ratiometric integrator.
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