Aimlessly wandering around a city or exploring the new mall may seem unproductive, but new research from HHMI's Janelia ...

New research shows your brain may learn complex visual patterns without effort, reward, or feedback -- just by passively ...

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like ...

Imagine you're sitting at a pond, listening to the din of croaking frogs. You want to know how many frogs are in the pond, but you can't pick out the individual croaks—only the combined sound rising ...

The developing field of connectomics – the attempt to produce a neuron-and-synapse-level wiring diagram of the brain – has taken a major leap forward, as a Janelia team with the help of Google ...

All Janelia Farm group leaders, fellows and junior fellows are actively engaged in research. They work in small teams that cross disciplinary boundaries to address the research center’s two broad ...

Janelia Fluor dyes used to create multifunctional fluorophores that can be used for multiple purposes. Credit: Pratik Kumar To neuroscientist Jason Vevea, Luke Lavis is not just a chemist.

When the Janelia Research Campus opened in 2006, Gerald Rubin, its founding director, set his sights on the fruit fly. “I don’t want to offend any of my worm colleagues, ...

Additionally, Janelia Farm expects to appoint 20 fellows, and to establish mechanisms by which graduate students from other institutions can conduct research for their dissertations. All research ...

There are no doubt many other great feats of architecture at Janelia, but what really impressed me were the floors in the pub (yes, there is a pub). They are laid in four inch square cross-sections of ...

Janelia researchers announced a major step in that quest on Wednesday, releasing a wiring diagram of the fly brain that contains 25,000 neurons and the 20 million connections between them. The so ...

Scientists at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus have discovered a new kind of synapse in the tiny hairs on the surface of neurons. The commonly overlooked protrusions called primary cilia contain ...