[Verse 1] Golgi stain splashes onto just a few, black branches blooming like lightning breaking through, Nissl dyes violet, every cell body shown, marking where the nucleus sits upon its throne, Immunostaining tags one protein, nothing more, a molecular address pinned onto the door. [Chorus] Дивись, нейрон — look, the neuron glows, Світло в клітині, watch the pattern flow, Бачимо зв'язки, branch by branch we trace, Дивись, нейрон, lighting up the space. [Verse 2] Zoom past the light now, into the electron's eye, vesicles cluster like berries ready to fly, across the synaptic cleft, a canyon thin and small, neurotransmitters leap it, answering the call, pictures frozen sharp, a thousand times too fine for any lens of glass to ever draw the line. [Chorus] Дивись, нейрон — look, the neuron glows, Світло в клітині, watch the pattern flow, Бачимо зв'язки, branch by branch we trace, Дивись, нейрон, lighting up the space. [Verse 3] Connectomics counts the wiring, every single thread, slices the brain to ribbons, scans them bit by bit instead, tiny worm, C. elegans, three hundred two cells strong, seven thousand synapses humming right along, fruit fly brain comes buzzing, bigger by a mile, one forty thousand neurons mapped and filed, FlyWire drew the atlas back in twenty-twenty-four, every single pathway logged, nothing left unexplored. [Verse 4] Optogenetics opens up another door, shine a light and neurons fire, never seen before, channelrhodopsin borrowed from an algae's tiny eye, flip the switch to on or off and watch the circuit fly, mice and flies and zebrafish mapped in blue and red, scientists can steer the sparks inside a living head, CRISPR edits genomes, precise as any blade, building better models for the discoveries we've made, patch clamp finds the voltage, whispers in the dark, every single neuron leaves a tiny electric mark. [Bridge] Green fluorescent protein, borrowed from a jellyfish's glow, Brainbow splashes colors so each neuron gets its own show, GCaMP flashes brightly when the calcium runs in, tiny lightning signals underneath the skin, two-photon microscope slips past the scattering haze, watching living spines rewire through a quiet golden gaze. Нейрони світяться (neurons start to shine), просто зараз, right here, right in time. [Chorus] Дивись, нейрон — look, the neuron glows, Світло в клітині, watch the pattern flow, Бачимо зв'язки, branch by branch we trace, Дивись, нейрон, lighting up the space. [Outro] Stain it, slice it, watch the colors run, Дивись, нейрон — this seeing's never done, every method just a window, every scan another key, Дивись, нейрон, forever glowing, wild and free.
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