Researchers describe the first complete wiring diagram of the nervous system of an animal, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, used by scientists worldwide as a model organism. The study includes ...
Glutamatergic synapses are generated without functional AMPA receptor-mediated transmission. These AMPA-silent synapses can become unsilenced either by inactivity or by correlated activity. AMPA ...
It’s April 2019 at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington. In a room containing five transmission electron microscopes, three shiny party balloons are bobbing around. The ...
Redrawing neural connections led to new clues about sex differences in scientists’ favorite model organism. By Knvul Sheikh The tiny, transparent roundworm known as Caenorhabditis elegans is roughly ...