CLARITY Makes It Perfectly Clear

摘要

A new window on the brain opened this year, promising to fundamentally change the way labs study the intricate organ. Called CLARITY, it turns brain tissue as transparent as glass by removing the fatty, light-scattering lipid molecules that form cellular membranes. CLARITY replaces the lipids with molecules of a clear gel but leaves all neurons, other brain cells, and their organelles intact, putting the intricacies of the brain on display.