From Cell.com

Individual neurons in a mouse brain fluoresce different colors based on a cool genetic trick with genes that encode different fluorescent proteins. It’s kind of like putting in all the primary colors into each neuron, randomly turning some on and some off, and with all those different possible combinations, you get all the different possible colors.

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