A scientific team supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a new, ultra-high-resolution ...

But now, an international team of scientists has created the first map showing every neuron and connection in an adult brain. This 'wiring diagram', created by the FlyWire Consortium, reveals each ...

NIH-supported scientists have developed the Connectome 2.0 MRI scanner, a breakthrough tool that images living human brains ...

This image shows a subset of the more than 1,000 of the 120,000 brain cells (neuron + glia) reconstructed in the MICrONS Project. Credit: Allen Institute ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and ...

Human Brain Cell Atlas offers unprecedented look at neuropsychiatric disorders Researchers map gene switches and brain cell types associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer’s ...

The harmful clumps of tau protein that build up in brains affected by Alzheimer's were reduced significantly, and the mice ...

This $35,000 Computer Runs on Human Brain Cells. Scientists Say It’s Not Conscious—Yet. The path toward our mind-machine merger never has never seemed clearer.

They compare the studies to the Human Genome Project, which created the first complete map of the DNA in every human cell.The Human Genome Project has led to profound advances in drug discovery ...

Analysis of mitochondria within 703 3x3x3mm cubes of a human brain created the first energy map of the brain. ... Mitochondria are flinging their DNA into our brain cells, study shows. Aug 22, 2024.

Little-known cells might be key to human brain’s massive memory. A new model suggests that astrocytes might be used in computation, coordinating with neurons and connecting synapses in networks.

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections.