Manganese Accumulation for Genetically Induced Contrast (MAGIC) MRI in the brain across species
Harikrishna Rallapalli, Dwina Hadj-Mabrouk, Tyler Lee, Wenliang Wang, Walter Lerchner, Keith W. MacRenaris, Thomas V. O’Halloran, Barry J. Richmond, Alan P. Koretsky
The paper introduces MAGIC MRI, a gene-based reporter system for non-invasive neural tracing in vivo, validated in rodents and rhesus macaques.
bioRxiv · May 5, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience