Ed Boyden : A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets

Ed Boyden at TEDSummit  (transcript)
A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets
Summary
In the story, a new way is to use polymers to see individual molecules in our brain. The structure of our brain is incredibly complicated and there are so many tiny connections. However, if its tiny connections are bigger more than over thousands, we must see it. The speaker hit upon an idea when he saw baby diapers that were added water and those could swell enormously. The material was polymers. By using this and seeing tiny connections of our brain, we study more our brain. It must lead to knowing about many diseases that were secrets on what happened in our brain.

This can create a map of our brain, deliver drugs, wipe out exactly the cells, and so on.

I thought that the idea was important.
Now, big-data can do the same thing that we read another story recently, though, humans have to hit upon many ideas before we use big-data.

Words in this story
swell /verb/ swell, expand, get big