I think it's important to recognize not only how fake science can degrade medicine and exploit health care consumers, but also how real science can benefit medicine and consumers. It's also important ...

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram ... to understand human diseases, and a better comprehension of the mouse brain’s form and function will present ...

The years-long effort painstakingly charted a cubic millimeter of mouse brain—all its cells and connections—and linked this wiring diagram to how the animal ... mammalian brain structure to neuronal ...

A recent study revealed that the average human brain may contain the equivalent of a whopping five plastic bottle caps' worth of microplastics. The New York Times took a deeper dive into the topic on ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

Trying to grasp the brain's complexity is a little like trying to comprehend the vastness of space – it feels way beyond our scope of understanding.

The 3D brain map includes more than 200,000 cells, 523 million synapses and over two miles of axons, representing the most ...

Researchers view wiring diagrams as a foundational step that scientists can build on and, eventually, potentially use to find treatments for brain conditions like Alzheimer's, Parkinson’s and ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

The map promises to accelerate the study of normal brain function ... diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing." His words served as a challenge. Seung ...