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BAC-to-BAC images of the brain

A large-scale effort to uncover the gene-expression profiles of individual neurons and create a demographic atlas of the brain is under way. First data from this project are revealing new information about neuronal development.

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Figure 1: Visualizing gene expression.

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Zoghbi, H. BAC-to-BAC images of the brain. Nature 425, 907–908 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/425907a

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