Using a piece of that mouse’s brain about the size of a poppy seed, the researchers identified those neurons and traced how ...

Scientists say the map of a speck of a mouse's brain could be as transformative as the Human Genome Project. Here's what to ...

The 3D brain map includes more than 200,000 cells, 523 million synapses and over two miles of axons, representing the most detailed wiring diagram of a piece of mammal brain ever constructed ...

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Researchers have created the 'largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date,' said Nature ...

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

From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

The team of scientists behind the project said the map of neuron wiring was so complex, it looked like a picture of a galaxy.

In all, they collected data that covers about 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) of neuronal wiring in a part of the brain that ...