Astrocytes transduced with BacMam-GFP in mouse visual cortex. Notice the astrocytes are wrapped around the blood vessels.

This in vivo 2-photon image was created using viral vectors from the viral gene transfer core, a facility established in 2008 by the Picower Institute and the McGovern Institute to make viral vectors accessible to the MIT neuroscience community.

Image courtesy of Sam Clark, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT