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A repurposed vaccine grants durable anterograde access to neural circuits

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How a decades-old vaccine for yellow fever may help scientists study the brain connectome.

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Fig. 1: Viral tools for transneuronal circuit mapping and interrogation.

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This work was supported by National Institutes of Health award U01 NS120824 and the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator award.

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