Scientists have finely sliced a human brain into 7,400 wafer-thin sheets and then reconstructed it to create the world’s most detailed map of the brain in three dimensions. The so-called “Big Brain” ...

Scientists have created a '3D brain map' that details brain cells and neural networks by analyzing a piece of the human brain half the size of a rice grain. This is expected to help uncover unknown ...

The largest and most comprehensive 3D map of a mammalian brain to date offers an unprecedented insight into how neurons connect and function. The new map, which captures a cubic millimetre of a ...

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Researchers mapped all 139,255 neurons in the brain of an adult fruit fly, which are linked by more than 50 million synapses. Tyler Sloan for FlyWire, Princeton University, (Dorkenwald, S. et al.

Scientists have created a full map of an adult fly’s brain for the first time. The 3D model of all of the neurones of a fruit fly, and the 50 million connections between them, is the first time that ...