71 Ed Boyden - Blowing Up the Brain
Ed Boyden is the head of the MIT Media Lab\u2019s Synthetic Neurobiology research group and he wants blow up the brain. Sort of. He and his team have discovered a way to examine brain tissue by physically expanding it\u2014a process that lets them look at tissue which would normally be extremely difficult to see even under a microscope. Boyden explains how it all works\u2014and a lot more\u2014on this week\u2019s episode.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds