In her doctoral research at Columbia University, Ganguly creates models of the neuronal connections in the fruit fly brain ...

That's the idea behind a new method developed by the Funke Lab at Janelia to count the individual molecules contained in a single spot of light detected by a fluorescence microscope—a quantity ...

Astrocytes are star shaped cells that make up around 35% of human brain cells. They were once thought of as cells that simply supported neurons in the central nervous system (CNS). But in recent years ...

Luckily, Wang's lab is down the hall from Janelia Principal Scientist Paul Tillberg. Tillberg co-invented a technique called expansion microscopy as a graduate student at MIT.

Rhobo6, a light microscopy probe, gives scientists an unprecedented look at the extracellular matrix -- the collection of organized molecular structures that fills the spaces between cells in our ...

Our biceps and brain cells might have more in common than we believed. According to a new study from the Lippincott-Schwartz Lab, a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible ...

Our biceps and our brain cells may have more in common than previously thought. New research led by the ...

By reexamining 3D images used to map the connections between brain cells, researchers are uncovering new information about a small, elusive, and often overlooked cellular appendage.

The Ahrens Lab had shown in earlier work that zebrafish exhibit a trait known as futility-induced passivity, or "giving up" -- a behavior that has also been seen in rodents.

Neuroscientists had a problem. For decades, researchers had a theory about how an animal's brain keeps track of where it is ...

An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and every synaptic connection in an adult fruit fly's brain, building a ...