Method for making brain transparent may open scientific frontier

Stanford scientists have developed a technique that replaces opaque lipids in brains of human cadavers with a see-through gel. It may lead to rapid advances in the study of autism and other maladies.Scientists have created a way to make a human brain transparent, enabling them to take deep three-dimensional tours through the mysterious organ and trace its circuitry down to the molecular level.

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