Electron microscope image of a nerve fiber with myelin (in black) in the optic nerve of an MS patient. In yellow, the spaces between myelin layers that are enlarged in MS) Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate ... LICONN is the first technology beyond electron microscopy capable of reconstructing brain tissue with all the synaptic connections between ...

A University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher received a $2.4 million National Cancer Institute grant to ...

Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate ... The researchers claim LICONN is the first technology beyond electron microscopy (EM) that is capable of reconstructing brain tissue with ...

Applying new technology sparked curiosity. Pawel Burkhardt’s collaboration with Maike Kittelmann, a 3D electron microscopy expert, led to the important observation that one single neuron in the ...

The wiring of one insect’s brain no longer contains much uncharted territory. All of the nerve cells — and virtually every connection between them — in a larval fruit fly brain have now been ...