A team of scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science is making publicly available a manually constructed, 3D cellular-level atlas of the complete mouse brain. Derived from serial two-photon ...

Poultry scientists are unraveling the complexities of bird brains and finding less expensive ways to do it. The scientists mapped the intricate neurological pathways that control vision in chickens ...

Our hearts are primarily controlled by the brain and autonomic nervous system, but we also have a backup. The heart has its own mini-brain called the intracardiac nervous system (ICN), which fine ...

After three years of intensive data-gathering and careful drawing, the mapmakers' work was complete. The complex terrain they charted, with all its peaks, valleys and borders, is only about half an ...

Researchers have produced an engineered tissue representing a simplified cerebral cortex by 3D printing human stem cells. When implanted into mouse brain slices, the structures became integrated with ...

Zygote Body is a comprehensive and unique way to learn about the human body. The human body is fascinating and complex. Students puzzle over those different bones, blood vessels, muscles, and ...

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What just happened? Researchers have reconstructed a minuscule piece of the human brain down to the level of individual synapses, representing a giant leap forward for brain science. And we're not ...