Harvard and Google Research have released a startlingly deep dive into the human brain, mapping thousands of cells and millions of synapses in a poppy seed-sized sample of brain tissue. The effort ...

A squishy, fatty, beige-colored organ covered with grooves and ridges, the brain doesn’t look all that impressive on the surface. But hidden underneath are up to 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion ...

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Mapping all the connections among the brain’s 100 billion neurons is one of the great scientific and engineering challenges of our time. Scientists, including those at the University of Chicago, began ...

Ultrafast functional Doppler ultrasound (fUS) is based on the principles of conventional Doppler ultrasonography but operates at an extremely fast frame rate. This significantly improves ...

Just like real atlases, brain atlases vary widely in scale and content. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every ...

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