The structure of the brain is one of the most bafflingly complex ... neurons is like knowing which structures on satellite images of the earth correspond to streets and buildings.

Researchers have produced a full map of an adult fruit fly's brain cells This map could help ... is like knowing which ...

Research reveals advanced brain aging in older adults correlates with cognitive decline and Alzheimer's risk, highlighting ...

To capture the entire brain, they imaged 7,050 sections and produced about 21 million pictures. Dr. Seung and his colleagues also developed software to interpret these images. They programmed ...

What Is a Brain Tumor? A brain tumor (also called an intracranial tumor) is a cluster of abnormal cells that grows in or around your brain. There are over a hundred types of tumors that develop in ...

The FlyEM team used a beam of gallium atoms to blast away nanometres of tissue from a brain sample and then record an image of each newly exposed surface with a scanning electron microscope (which ...

However, the modulation of neuronal signals is critical not only for treating circuit disorders but also for identifying ...

New Microscope Offers Faster, High-Resolution Brain Imaging Aug. 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new two-photon fluorescence microscope that captures high-speed images of neural activity ...

Seung and Murthy say that they’ve been developing the FlyWire map for more than four years, using electron microscopy images of slices of the fly’s brain. The researchers and their colleagues ...

Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn and collaborators have discovered that specific neurons in the human brain react to scents, images, and associated words, such as "banana." Published in ...

Using diamond knives, they then cut the brain into more than 7,000 ultrathin sections. The scientists viewed the sections under a high-speed electron microscope and took 21 million images.