Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function
The tech that money can’t buy
What if the tool needed to move science forward doesn’t yet exist? Here are gadgets and techniques born from improvisation that made impossible experiments possible.
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Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics
Laboratory of Genetics
It’s all about your frame of mind
We think of brains as computers—stimulus in, action out. But they’re far more finicky than any iMac. Easily swayed by underlying internal states such as hunger, aggression, or arousal, our neurons are capable of incredible flexibility. For neuroscientists, it’s yet another wrinkle in understanding our wrinkliest organ.
Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology
Seeing is believing
Scientists are blowing things up like never before. Here are five bio-imaging techniques ready to reveal biology’s smallest secrets.
