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Frontier · NatureA 1-Gram Wireless Microscope Records 8,500 Brain Cells at Once in Freely Moving MiceResearchers at Tsinghua University developed Airscope, a wireless miniature microscope weighing 1.0 g with a 6 mm field of view. It recorded cortical activity at the level of thousands of cells in mice running and swimming without cables.
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