New photoacoustic probes enable deep brain tissue imaging, with potential to report on neuronal activity

To understand the brain better, we need new methods to observe its activity. That is at the heart of a molecular engineering project, spearheaded by two research groups at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), that has resulted in a novel approach to create photoacoustic probes for neuroscience applications. The findings were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.