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Top neuroscience labs are adapting new and unexpected tools to gain a deeper understanding of how mice, and ultimately humans, react to different drug treatments.

Adam Hadhazy, Office of Engineering Communications Feb. 18, 2021 12:59 p.m. Princeton researchers used tiny glass beads as a substitute for soil, so they could observe the behavior of hydrogels — tiny plastic blobs that can absorb a thousand times their weight in water — whose success in agriculture has been puzzlingly uneven. The researchers used a chemical that compensated for the distortion caused by the round beads, resulting in a perfectly clear view of the hydrogel. Photo by the Datta...