A groundbreaking new connectome maps every neural connection in an adult fruit fly’s central nervous system, creating an ...

First complete connectome of the fruit fly central nervous system details all connections between neurons in the brain and ...

A complete wiring diagram of all the connections between the fruit fly brain and "spinal cord" provides translational ...

Researchers publish the first complete fruit fly central nervous system connectome, proving motor control is distributed in ...

In the 1970s biologist Sydney Brenner and his colleagues began preserving tiny hermaphroditic roundworms known as Caenorhabditis elegans in agar and osmium fixative, slicing up their bodies like ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge ...

A staggering amount of brain activity takes place in this arena, where “countless signals come together to form a unified ...

There is a macabre brilliance to the machine in Jeff Lichtman's laboratory at Harvard University that is worthy of a Wallace and Gromit film. In one end goes brain. Out the other comes sliced brain, ...

Sebastian Seung is tipped as a rising star of neuroscience. He trained as a physicist at Harvard University, but later joined MIT as professor of computational neuroscience. In his first book, ...