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Bringing the living brain into focus

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A fast scanning light-sheet microscope that produces multicolour, dynamic images of living tissue could provide fresh insights into the brain's neural circuits.

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Figure 1: Light-sheet microscopy.

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Corbett, A., Bub, G. Bringing the living brain into focus. Nature Photon 9, 80–82 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.3

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