Transparent mice do not survive. They are used for research and help scientists study the details of anatomy. Before being given chemicals, animal euthanasia is injected and skinned. The researchers make them transparent organs, except the bones.
The result looks like a piece of gelatin with a rodent-shaped organ that is connected to the connective tissue and the gel used in the procedure.
mainstay of research
Rat is a mainstay of animals in biomedical research. They are often used because it has many similarities with human biology. They also can be used to simulate human disease.
The last century, scientists have been able to make the network transparent. In recent years several new methods were developed. In 2013, for example, a technique that produces a transparent mouse brain headlines. The results of this study with a transparent brain is far more detailed than those produced by X-rays or MRI test.
Helping medical analysis
Meanwhile, mice transparanakan useful for projects such as mapping details of the nervous system or the spread of cancer, said Viviana Gradinaru of the California Institute of Technology, senior researcher who wrote a paper about it. Research with rats transparent can also help doctors analyze human biopsy samples.
Techniques in the study of this invisibility mice involves a series of efforts to pump chemicals through the blood vessels, as well as other parts of the brain and spinal cord. Some chemicals form a link to hold the network.
Other processes, is to wash out the grease that makes the network block light. It took about a week to make a rat transparent, said Gradinaru. But for a large rat, it took two weeks. Scientists can use the stain to highlight anatomical details such as the location of active genes.
The last century, scientists have been able to make the network transparent. In recent years several new methods were developed. In 2013, for example, a technique that produces a transparent mouse brain headlines. The results of this study with a transparent brain is far more detailed than those produced by X-rays or MRI test.
Helping medical analysis
Meanwhile, mice transparanakan useful for projects such as mapping details of the nervous system or the spread of cancer, said Viviana Gradinaru of the California Institute of Technology, senior researcher who wrote a paper about it. Research with rats transparent can also help doctors analyze human biopsy samples.
Techniques in the study of this invisibility mice involves a series of efforts to pump chemicals through the blood vessels, as well as other parts of the brain and spinal cord. Some chemicals form a link to hold the network.
Other processes, is to wash out the grease that makes the network block light. It took about a week to make a rat transparent, said Gradinaru. But for a large rat, it took two weeks. Scientists can use the stain to highlight anatomical details such as the location of active genes.
