The 3D blueprints display more than two miles of neural wiring, close to 100,000 nerve cells, and about 500 million synapses — all contained in a piece of mouse brain no bigger than a grain of sand.

Using a speck of mouse brain matter the size of a grain of sand ... in time if we thought we’re going to lose more than a section in a row.” If that happened, da Costa said the experiment ...

The 3D blueprints display more than two miles of neural wiring, close to 100,000 nerve cells, and about 500 million synapses — all contained in a piece of mouse brain no bigger than a grain of sand.

This image provided by the Allen Institute on April 8, 2025, shows a digital representation of neurons in a section of a mouse's brain, part of a project to create the largest map to date of brain ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with ...

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Scientists created the largest functional map of a brain to date using a piece of a mouse's brain. The map details the wiring that connects neurons, offering insight into brain function and ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date—a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.