One cubic millimeter of mouse brain is about 20 times bigger than the complete fruit fly brain, and much more complex, the researchers said. Nonetheless, the goal is to be able to map the entire ...

One cubic millimeter of mouse brain is about 20 times bigger than the complete fruit fly brain, and much more complex, but the new map is far from a complete rendering. It represents only about one ...

The incredible work took nine years to complete from start to finish ... with the scientists monitoring brain activity. The mouse's brain was then dissected into 28,000 separate layers.

Using a piece of a mouse’s brain no larger than a grain of sand ... which created the first complete map of the DNA in every human cell. The Human Genome Project has led to profound advances ...

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(That’s a tortured acronym that stands for BRAIN Initiative Connectivity Across Scales.) Two of the goals of that program are to generate a detailed wiring diagram for the complete mouse brain ...