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Lighting up action potentials with fast and bright voltage sensors

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Three groundbreaking studies have created a new generation of genetically encoded voltage indicators, empowering us to tackle a host of questions on our path toward understanding the brain.

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Fig. 1: Fast voltage sensors to highlight action potentials in neurons, showing fluorescence response to voltage and an example of spikes recording in vivo.

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This works is funded by National Institutes of Health (U19NS123719 and U01NS120820 to L.T. and R21EY031858 to L.T. and A.A).

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Andreoni, A., Tian, L. Lighting up action potentials with fast and bright voltage sensors. Nat Methods 20, 990–992 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-01928-6

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