By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in ...

A new two-photon fluorescence microscope developed at UC Davis can capture high-speed images of neural activity at cellular resolution thanks to a new adaptive sampling scheme and line illumination.

NextBrain released an open-to-the-public brain atlas that outperforms previous models in terms of resolution and ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain ...

An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Feeling tired is something everyone experiences, but science still struggles to measure fatigue in an objective way. A new ...

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