Watch This: Brain Activity Illuminated in a Zebrafish

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By Breanna Draxler
Mar 18, 2013 9:18 PMDec 19, 2019 7:59 PM
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Neurons firing in a zebrafish larva. (Credit: Misha Ahrens & Philipp Keller/Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

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The possibility of someday recording all the neurons firing in a living creature's central nervous system has inspired generations of neuroscientists. Now a group of researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has finally achieved the feat.

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