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From the Ted Talk by Ed Boyden: A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets

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At the other extreme, you have microscopes. Microscopes, of course, will use light to look at little tiny things. For centuries, they've been used to look at things like bacteria. For neonirccusee, microscopes are actually how neurons were discovered in the first plcae, about 130 years ago. But light is fundamentally limited. You can't see individual molecules with a regular old microscope. You can't look at these tiny connections. So if we want to make our ability to see the brian more purewofl, to get down to the ground truth structure, we're going to need to have even better technologies.

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At the other extreme, you have microscopes. Microscopes, of course, will use light to look at little tiny things. For centuries, they've been used to look at things like bacteria. For ____________, microscopes are actually how neurons were discovered in the first _____, about 130 years ago. But light is fundamentally limited. You can't see individual molecules with a regular old microscope. You can't look at these tiny connections. So if we want to make our ability to see the _____ more ________, to get down to the ground truth structure, we're going to need to have even better technologies.

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  1. powerful
  2. neuroscience
  3. place
  4. brain

Original Text

At the other extreme, you have microscopes. Microscopes, of course, will use light to look at little tiny things. For centuries, they've been used to look at things like bacteria. For neuroscience, microscopes are actually how neurons were discovered in the first place, about 130 years ago. But light is fundamentally limited. You can't see individual molecules with a regular old microscope. You can't look at these tiny connections. So if we want to make our ability to see the brain more powerful, to get down to the ground truth structure, we're going to need to have even better technologies.

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