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We’re closer than ever to mapping the entire brain to the microscopic level. Hundreds of neuroscientists across the world recently characterized more than 3,000 human brain cell types as part of the National Institute of Health’s BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network,

A group of international scientists have mapped the genetic, cellular, and structural makeup of the human brain and the nonhuman primate brain. This understanding of brain structure, achieved by funding

Ambitious research yields new atlas of human brain cells

Researchers catalogue more than 3,000 different types of cell in our most complex organ

Scientists forming an international collaboration have mapped the genetic, cellular, and structural makeup of the human brain and the nonhuman primate brain. Along with new knowledge about the brain cells, they share new insights about our nervous systems cellular makeup across many regions of the brain and what makes the human brain distinctive.

<p>Salk scientists, as a part of a larger National Institute of Health’s <em>Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative </em>collaboration, analyzed more than half a million brain cells from three human brains to identify previously unknown brain cell subtypes. Their research paves the way for understanding how certain brain cell types go awry in brain disorders and diseases.</p>

In a tour de force for neuroscience, teams of researchers have published a voluminous set of brain-cell atlases for humans and other primates. The atlases are detailed in 21 research papers appearing in Science, Science Advances and Science Translational Medicine — and could point scientists toward new strategies for addressing mental conditions ranging from Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia to epilepsy and ADHD. “We need to understand the specifics of the human brain if...

The collection offers a glimpse into differences in cell composition — across people and brain regions — that may shape neural function.

/PRNewswire/ -- Scientists have just unveiled a massive effort to understand our own brains and those of our closest primate relatives....

Researchers catalogue more than 3,000 different types of cell in our most complex organ. Researchers catalogue more than 3,000 different types of cell in our most complex organ.