Novel, ring-inserts' are prepared (1) and loaded with growth factors of interest using microcontact printing (2). Brain slices taken from postnatal day 8-10 mice are added (3) and nerve fibers grow ...

Researchers at the Laboratory of Psychiatry and Experimental Alzheimer’s Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Innsbruck, have developed a low-cost and ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

Scientists created the largest functional map of a brain to date using a piece of a mouse's brain. The map details the wiring that connects neurons, offering insight into brain function and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...

A subset of more than 1,000 neurons, representing just a snapshot of the complexity mapped within a cubic millimeter of mouse brain tissue Allen Institute In 1979, biologist Francis Crick claimed it ...

Mapping all the connections among the brain’s 100 billion neurons is one of the great scientific and engineering challenges of our time. Scientists, including those at the University of Chicago, began ...

The human brain isn’t a blank slate waiting to be written by experience, according to research that challenges the century-old Tabula Rasa theory. The study shows that neurons grown in laboratory ...

The Bell Jar project team at UC Santa Cruz: from left to right are postdoc Richard Dickson, graduate student Matthew Jacobs, Alec Soronow, and Euiseok Kim. (Photo by Carolyn Lagatutta) UC Santa Cruz ...