The human brain is estimated to have over 100 billion neurons. Each neuron connects hundreds to thousands of times, creating a dense, complicated network of over 100 trillion connections. Scientists have the obvious challenge of mapping neuronal networks in a forest where all the trees and roots look identical. To differentiate between individual neurons in a network, researchers have developed the Brainbow technique.
Brainbow labels each neuron with a specific color, allowing researchers to follow the pathways from one individual cell to the next. Seen here is the Brainbow technique used in a mouse brain.
Image by Mr. Pierre Mahou, Dr. Emmanuel Beaurepaire, and Dr. Karine Loulier, Ecole Polytechnique
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ReplyDeleteThis impossibly intricate system is only the internal part of the equation.. the communication between cells is all a finely tuned electrical network of + and -charges particals which allows us to function as an entity and to use these same system to communicate with the external word through sound vibration physical movement and man made tools..all that exists operates in this floating matrix or plasma of charged particles ..density is relative to temperatures and,/available energy (,influx)..nature has created various atomic structure to allow for this chaos to have some structure and to organize itself into what we know as existence..solid, liquid and gas animate and inanimate. All part of this ever evolving and expanding universe we call home..
ReplyDeleteThis complexity rises the mind and consciousness :)
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