Here's a super weird image I took of some neurons in a petri dish that were infected with a virus that seemed to turn them into…balloon animal versions of neurons. This wasn't quite what we were going for (neurons don't look so…bubbly…when they're happy) – but I thought it just looked pretty cool. The reason they're green is that the virus caused them to manufacture an engineered channel that enables us to control when and where they fire impulses (action potentials) by using blue light. Pretty neat that even mistakes in molecular biology can be pretty beautiful. . . . . . . . #brain #neuroscience #microscope #science #beautiful #awesome #dopamine #scienceisawesome #sciencerules #scienceart #scienceclass #sciencerocks #scienceiscool #nature_lovers #nature_hub #natureinside #natureisart #green #neuron #biology #life