Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge ...

A scientific team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) unveiled the first complete map of the neural connections of the common fruit fly brain. The map provides a wiring diagram, known ...

A side view of the brain's left hemisphere including the cerebrum and cerebellum. The Human Connectome Project (HCP) plans to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project (HGP) did for genetics.

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and published in a series of papers written by scientists worldwide, including ...

“It’s really a breakthrough in mapping the living human brain using [magnetic resonance imaging-based] methods,” neuroscientist Katrin Amunts at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, who was not ...

Janelia scientists and collaborators have released a comprehensive wiring diagram of the fruit fly visual system. The Drosophila optic lobe connectome provides a map of the more than 50,000 neurons ...

Landmark collaborative project sets out to chart every neural connection in the mouse brain. The human brain is a network of around 100 billion neurons connected via synapses. Jeff Lichtman (Harvard ...