Science can make tropical fish glow in the dark and it has so how about doing that with the human brain and, yep, now science has done that too. (Science Daily: Bioluminescent sensor causes brain cells to glow in the dark)
Individual neuron glowing with bioluminescent light produced by a new genetically engineered sensor.
Credit: Johnson Lab / Vanderbilt University
Based on their research on bioluminescence in "a scummy little organism, the green alga Chlamydomonas, that nobody cares much about" Johnson and his colleagues realized that if they could combine luminescence with optogenetics -- a new biological technique that uses light to control cells, particularly neurons, in living tissue -- they could create a powerful new tool for studying brain activity.
Individual neuron glowing with bioluminescent light produced by a new genetically engineered sensor.
Credit: Johnson Lab / Vanderbilt University
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Presto, your brain goes Las Vegas but there's a reason.
- Science Daily
This is stupidly twisted but I still dig it. Given the shocking ways people will accept body modifications, how about replacing the skull with some transparent type of plastic material because it's stronger, lasts longer ... and you can see through it. Now not only will your brain be Las Vegas but your friends can watch at the disco. Wow, I can hardly wait. With this and some of that stay young stuff, I'll be John Travolta in a white suit with my brain flashing disco lights. Dance, dance, dance. (Ithaka: A Fountain of Youth, At Least for Mice)
Whoops, I flipped myself with that one. Have a ball with watching the brain think.
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