The free 3D Brain app is an informative, educational, and interactive overview of the human brain and its structures. The free 3D Brain (for iPad) is an educational app that lets you peruse rotatable ...

Researchers have published the first comprehensive, large-scale data set on how the brain of a mammal is wired, providing a groundbreaking data resource and fresh insights into how the nervous system ...

New technologies that allow scientists to trace the fine wiring of the brain more accurately than ever before could soon generate a complete wiring diagram–including every tiny fiber and miniscule ...

What happens here matters everywhere. by Alan Boyle on April 9, 2025 at 8:00 am April 9, 2025 at 9:11 am Allen Institute researchers Leila Elabbady and Clay Reid examine brain mapping data from the ...

The University of Minnesota Medical School received a $16 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies ® (BRAIN) Initiative ...

Researchers have developed a new technique to label individual neurons in the brain in different colors. This method, which the scientists have dubbed 'brainbow,' could help shed light on brain ...

The brain of a common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is no larger than a poppy seed, but the miniscule piece of tissue holds tens of thousands of neurons joined by tens of millions of synapses.

The human brain is composed of billions of neurons wired together in intricate webs and communicating through electrical pulses and chemical signals. Although neuroscientists have made progress in ...

Neuroscientists and computer scientists from Princeton University, the Allen Institute and Baylor College of Medicine have just released a collection of data that marries a 3-D wiring diagram with the ...

A top-down 3-D view of the mouse connectome. Credit: Allen Institute for Brain Science The brain is an incredibly complex organ. The tiny mouse brain, for example, contains over 86 million neurons, ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved ...

What happens here matters everywhere. by Alan Boyle on July 29, 2021 at 12:01 am July 29, 2021 at 8:41 am A 3-D reconstruction of cells from the MICrONS data set shows the complexity of shapes and ...