The human brain is comprised of two main types of cells, known as neurons and glia. The first are responsible for ...

Large-scale microscopy combined with tissue clearing and expansion enables nanoscale imaging of centimeter scale specimens.

First devised by Zoltan Takats, a chemist and professor at Imperial College London, the technology consists of a needle-like ...

Scientists develop method to promote neuron growth Researchers from Stanford Medicine have found a new way to accelerate the growth of neurons, or nerve cells, according to a study published in ...

Stunning images show the most detailed map of the brain ever produced, revealing each of the 50 million connections which ...

Cajal continued to write and to encourage his students, even on his deathbed in 1934. His final paper, written that year, was a detailed recapitulation of the neuron doctrine.

Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior have developed a miniature microscope small enough to be carried on the head of freely a moving mouse and capable of measuring ...

This is a time lapse of what a dying neuron looks like under a microscope. Imagine sifting through hundreds of thousands of images like these by hand! Jeremy Linsley, CC BY-NC-ND AI to the rescue ...

In the Nov. 17 issue of Nature Communications, Smith and his co-authors report the development of a new microscope they describe as “Dual Independent Enhanced Scan Engines for Large Field-of ...