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Mapping Whole-Brain Responses to Nutrient Intake in Larval Zebrafish
If you've ever tried to pin down whether that one brain region you love is actually doing what you think it's doing…
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Deep dives into specific neural pathways, developmental milestones, and the biological drivers of behavior.
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Mapping the Neural Circuits That Govern Our Sense of Agency
According to a new study from the University of Oxford combining fMRI and TMS, researchers have fingered two…
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Why Climate Neuroscience Must Become a Core Pillar of Zebrafish Research
The Transmitter is running a piece that should make every zebrafish PI sit up and pay attention: neuroscientists are…
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How Estrogen Shifts Neural Architecture and Impacts Experimental Data
News-Medical is flagging a new study this week with a headline that should make every bench scientist sit up straight…
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Real-Time 3D Imaging of Seizure Activity in Zebrafish Larvae
You know that sinking feeling when you're trying to catch a seizure wave sweeping through a larval brain and your…
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Internal Developmental Clocks Drive Brain Organoid Maturation
A new finding from NIH-funded researchers is forcing a parallel conversation in the organoid world, and the…
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Neural Flexibility: How Brain Circuits Reuse Populations for Sensory and Motor Tasks
The MIT group behind it, led by postdoctoral researcher Yuma Osako, has produced what outlets like Medical Xpress and…
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How Early Visual Exposure Rewires Zebrafish Retinal Circuits and Behavior
According to The Transmitter, a zebrafish study published in Neuron is finally putting numbers on a hunch many of us…
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Optical Tweezers Bypass Speakers to Control Zebrafish Heart Rates via Otoliths
According to ScienceAlert, a team led by physicist Xiaoshuai Liu of Guangzhou University just published a workaround…
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The Funding Gap: Why Commercial AI Capital Is Outpacing Basic Neuroscience Research
According to reporting from The Good Men Project, Nvidia pulled in roughly $500 billion for LLMs and robotics while the…
Zebrafish Behavior Tracking Software: Selection Guide
The tracking software works beautifully until the assay starts. Then the larvae disappear into glare, a stimulus change…
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FlatMux Platform Overcomes Two-Photon Imaging Limits for Zebrafish Neurobiology
A new platform called FlatMux, described in Nature Methods by Alipasha Vaziri's group at Rockefeller and reported by…
Zebrafish agarose mounting: a step-by-step imaging plan
A live zebrafish brain is easy to image only after it stops moving. That is the bottleneck. If the larva drifts, bends…
Zebrafish light-sheet imaging: 4 phototoxicity fixes
A larval zebrafish at 48 hours post-fertilization presents an imaging scientist with a quiet paradox: the photons…
Light-sheet illumination setups for zebrafish brain imaging
A light-sheet setup can give you a remarkably clean view of neural activity across a larval zebrafish brain—until the…
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Bridging the Gap: How New Mouse-Marmoset Brain Maps Advance Zebrafish Research
So when News-Medical flagged a new cross-species map linking mouse and marmoset brain regions, my first thought was…
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Mapping V1 Spinal Interneurons to Decode the Neural Control of Locomotion
If you've ever tried to untangle which spinal interneuron subtype is actually doing the thing your locomotor assay is…
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Integrating Engineering, Neuroscience, and AI to Advance Brain Research
According to the University of Santo Tomas, RCETS Director and BRAIN Lab Principal Investigator Asst.
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How Hippocampal Theta Sweeps Enable Neural Planning for Future Navigation
According to Medical Xpress, two research teams from Cornell University and University College London have identified…
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Rethinking Carbohydrate Metabolism in Early Neural Network Assembly
According to News-Medical, new research is putting carbohydrates back on the table as a meaningful player in early…
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New 3D Human Brain Tissue Model Advances Alzheimer’s Research
По данным LMU Klinikum, команда Dominik Paquet разработала воспроизводимую трёхмерную модель человеческой мозговой…
Larval zebrafish motor recovery after spinal cord injury
A mechanical lesion in a three-day-old zebrafish larva closes within roughly forty-eight hours. Within several days…
Zebrafish behavior tracking: 4 open-source software tools
A zebrafish behavior assay can produce thousands of frames in a single session, but raw video is not yet a measurement…
Zebrafish immobilization: choosing the right imaging method
Your calcium movie looks clean until you ask the uncomfortable question: are those neural signals from the larva, or…
Zebrafish brain registration: a guide to Z-Brain mapping
A confocal stack can look perfect and still be analytically unusable. Fluorescent reporters are firing across the optic…
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How Zebrafish Brains Reveal the Universal Logic of Sensory Processing
A new study published in Science, as reported by Medical Xpress, gives us something better than commiseration: it maps…
Zebrafish GCaMP Lines: Choosing the Best Fit for Your Lab
You can have a beautiful zebrafish brain movie, a stable preparation, and a perfectly healthy-looking larva—and still…
Light-sheet zebrafish imaging: from mounting to data
A light-sheet zebrafish brain protocol can fail before the microscope ever starts collecting data. The usual culprit is…
Zebrafish brain imaging: 5 ways to prevent motion artifacts
During a fast volumetric calcium scan, a larval zebrafish twitches — a reflex adjustment, a momentary flex in a quiet…