Scientists have constructed the most extensive functional brain map to date, charting the connections of 84,000 neurons as they transmit signals, thanks to a mouse that was shown clips from "The ...

And in return, the mouse grew a brain about 6.5% bigger than its peers. ... Building the Big Picture. HARE5 is just one of over 3,000 HARs scattered across the human genome.

These are “the big open questions about the mammalian cortex that are still very fundamental,” he adds. The newly published map covers around 0.2% of the mouse’s brain, ...

The mouse brain map — created by a team of 150 researchers with the federally funded MICrONS project, primarily at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Princeton and Baylor College of Medicine ...

A new brain study has revealed that you may have had similar thought processes to a mouse when you were a baby. Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Kishore Kuchibhotla has worked with mice for ...

To measure protein levels, the authors generated antibodies specific for both mouse and human versions of the giant protein. The mouse antibody measured about threefold more protein in cerebellum and ...

Synthetic embryo with brain and beating heart grown from mouse cells for first time ever The results could be used to guide repair and development of synthetic, or artificial, human organs for ...

The inventors say they should help advance research into Alzheimer's disease and other brain conditions. While it might sound like a cute gift to buy for your pet mouse, a new set of virtual ...

What happened. Scientists Wednesday unveiled a functional 3-D map of the 84,000 neurons in a cubic millimeter of a mouse's brain, along with more than three miles of microscopic wiring — axons ...