In 1979, famed molecular biologist, Francis Crick, stated that it would be "[impossible] to create an exact wiring diagram ... cells -- those that suppress neural activity -- as a simple force ...

Summary: Scientists have created the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to ... Scientists previously thought of inhibitory cells—those that suppress neural activity—as a simple force ...

Starting in the 1970s, researchers identified a beautiful system of specialised cells in the hippocampus (the brain’s memory ...

Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're ...

From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion ... the ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which ...

For Williams, and her small team at Oxford University in the UK, animal feces contain ... more challenging” to extract cells from than a skin biopsy, it’s simple compared to feces, he says ...

"The work by our team outlines how cells follow a few simple rules to build chromosomes and fold DNA into these tiny, intricate structures during the mitotic phase of cell division." Co-leading ...

Fruit flies can fly or walk forward at high speeds in a perfect straight line. That’s because, at every moment, a network of neurons in their brain detects even the slightest deviation from their path ...