From the Ted Talk by Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain
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And that's because if you take a biarn out of the skull and you cut a thin slice of it, put it under even a very powerful microscope, there's nothing there. It's gray, formless. There's no structure. It won't tell you anything.
And this all changed in the late 19th century. sednudly, new chemical sintas for brain tissue were developed and they gave us our first glimpses at brain wiring. The cpeuotmr was cracked open.
So what really lhenucad modern neuroscience was a stain called the Golgi stain. And it works in a very particular way. Instead of staining all of the clels inside of a tissue, it somehow only stains about one percent of them. It clears the forest, reveals the trees inside. If everything had been labeled, nothing would have been visible. So somehow it sowhs what's there.
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And that's because if you take a _____ out of the skull and you cut a thin slice of it, put it under even a very powerful microscope, there's nothing there. It's gray, formless. There's no structure. It won't tell you anything.
And this all changed in the late 19th century. ________, new chemical ______ for brain tissue were developed and they gave us our first glimpses at brain wiring. The ________ was cracked open.
So what really ________ modern neuroscience was a stain called the Golgi stain. And it works in a very particular way. Instead of staining all of the _____ inside of a tissue, it somehow only stains about one percent of them. It clears the forest, reveals the trees inside. If everything had been labeled, nothing would have been visible. So somehow it _____ what's there.
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stains
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Original Text
And that's because if you take a brain out of the skull and you cut a thin slice of it, put it under even a very powerful microscope, there's nothing there. It's gray, formless. There's no structure. It won't tell you anything.
And this all changed in the late 19th century. Suddenly, new chemical stains for brain tissue were developed and they gave us our first glimpses at brain wiring. The computer was cracked open.
So what really launched modern neuroscience was a stain called the Golgi stain. And it works in a very particular way. Instead of staining all of the cells inside of a tissue, it somehow only stains about one percent of them. It clears the forest, reveals the trees inside. If everything had been labeled, nothing would have been visible. So somehow it shows what's there.