Princeton University scientists have mapped the brain of an adult fruit fly, making major strides to better understand the ...

F RUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term ...

Electron microscope image of synapse in the cerebellum. This slice through the cerebellum cells shows the synapse between an inhibitory neuron (red) and a Purkinje cell (yellow). There ...

The holy grail for this avenue of research would be, eventually, to map out the complete human brain. It is estimated that ...

Stanford researchers gained new insights into how to promote neuron growth, how oceans absorb carbon dioxide more slowly than ...

“What you can now do”, Roska says, “is look simultaneously at all 150-200 presynaptic neurons that give input to your postsynaptic neuron and ... laser path of a 2P microscope.

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New Multiphoton Microscopy Module Enables Millisecond Neural Event Imaging at Single Neuron Resolution.

UC Santa Barbara researchers’ reconstruction of fruit fly’s anterior visual pathway will lead to insights into animal ...

This microscope called the RUSH3D system offers ... stimulation and tracked large-scale neural responses with single-neuron precision across several consecutive days, according to the study.

He laid the foundation with a little background, establishing that we’ve been able to see individual static neurons for a while via microscope ... out how it works one neuron at a time.

Live imaging at single-vesicle resolution reveals rabphilin-3A as the first identified negative regulator of neuropeptide release in mammalian neurons.