Literature

Alcor

2026

Inagaki, S., Nakagawa-Tamagawa, N., Huynh, N.Z., Kambe, Y., Yagasaki, R., Manita, S., Fujimoto, S., Noda, T., Mori, M., Teranishi, A. and Takeshima, H

Isotonic and minimally invasive optical clearing media for live cell imaging ex vivo and in vivo

SeeDB-Live optical clearing media reduce light scattering with low osmolarity, enabling minimally invasive fluorescence imaging of live mammalian tissues ex vivo and in vivo.

Nature Methods

Alcor

2025

Ramamurthy, D.L., Rodriguez, L., Cen, C., Li, S., Chen, A. and Feldman, D.E

Reward history guides focal attention in whisker somatosensory cortex

Two-photon calcium imaging and spike recordings in whisker S1 show that reward history flexibly shifts trial-by-trial attentional gain toward attended whiskers.

Nature Communications

Alcor

2025

Dewa, K.I., Kaseda, K., Kuwahara, A., Kubotera, H., Yamasaki, A., Awata, N., Komori, A., Holtz, M.A., Kasai, A., Skibbe, H. and Takata, N

The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory

Brain-wide Fos tagging and two-photon imaging identify an astrocytic ensemble that is transcriptionally primed and functionally triggered to stabilize labile memories.

Nature

Alcor

2025

Jiang, Q., Shao, L., Yao, S., Savalia, N.K., Gilbert, A.D., Davoudian, P.A., Nothnagel, J.D., Tian, G., Hung, T.S., Lai, H.M. and Beier, K.T

Psilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks

Monosynaptic rabies tracing combined with two-photon imaging maps brain-wide inputs rewired by psilocybin in medial frontal cortex pyramidal neurons of mice.

bioRxiv

Alcor

2025

Shrivastava, Kuldeep, et al

Energy state guides reward seeking via an extended amygdala to lateral hypothalamus pathway

Two-photon imaging reveals a glutamatergic bed-nucleus-of-stria-terminalis to lateral-hypothalamus pathway whose energy-state-dependent activity guides reward seeking during overfeeding.

Nature Communications

Alcor

2025

Takahashi, Kengo, et al

A polymeric, PDMS-based large-scale skull replacement suitable for optical and mechanical access for long-term neuronal imaging, electrophysiology, and optogenetics

A detailed guide synthesises, implants and validates PDMS skull windows for chronic optical and mechanical brain access including two-photon calcium imaging.

bioRxiv