LabRoots (Yorba Linda, Calif., March 5) – Illinois researchers have developed a novel approach to mapping brain behavior when someone is sick or healthy. “If you look at the brain chemically, it’s like a soup with a bunch of ingredients,” says Fan Lam, a professor of bioengineering at the U. of I. and co-author on the study. “Understanding the biochemistry of the brain, how it organizes spatiotemporally, and how those chemical reactions support computing is critical to having a better idea of how the brain functions in health as well as during disease.”
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Multiscale biochemical mapping of the brain through deep-learning-enhanced high-throughput mass spectrometry

• Yuxuan Richard Xie, Daniel C. Castro, Stanislav S. Rubakhin, Timothy J. Trinklein, Jonathan V. Sweedler & Fan Lam