The potential human applications of the new method are myriad, with researchers planning to use the mapping system to observe the behavior of neurons in patients exhibiting a brain disorder.

Harvard and Google Research have released a startlingly deep dive into the human brain, mapping thousands of cells and millions of synapses in a poppy seed-sized sample of brain tissue. The effort ...

Human neural progenitor cells with familial Alzheimer's disease mutations are differentiated in a 3D Matrigel matrix, leading to the extracellular aggregation of amyloid-β peptides and ...