Until today, skin, brain, and all tissues of the human body were difficult to observe in detail with an optical microscope, since the contrast in the image was hindered by the high density of their ...

Researchers from Aarhus University—in a major international collaboration—have developed a groundbreaking method that can ...

A fluorescence-microscopy method for tracing neuronal connections in the brain could make connectomics studies more widely accessible for neuroscientists. Read the paper: Light-microscopy-based ...

The team reported on the method in Nature, in a paper titled “Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue,” in which they stated, “Here we present a ...

The brain may contain higher -- and more significant -- amounts of microplastics than other organs in the body, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of New Mexico Health ...

The study examined 52 human brain samples from 2016 and 2024, all taken from the frontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for judgment, decision making, and muscle movement.

A cubic millimeter sounds tiny—to us, it is tiny—but a map of 200,000 brain cells represents just over a quarter of a percent of the mouse brain. In brain science terms, that’s ...

Putting humans into a state of suspended animation has been a sci-fi aspiration for decades. In Ridley Scott’s iconic film Alien, the crew of the Nostromo emerge from cryo-pods as they approach ...