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Loading video... VIDEO: Volumetric reconstruction of the L4 C. elegans neuropil (from EM serial sections) with neurons from the four strata highlighted (S1-Red, S2-Purple, S3-Blue, S4-Green). view more  Credit: Mark Moyle et al., Nature, 2021. WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Understanding how the brain works is a paramount goal of medical science. But with its billions of tightly packed, intermingled neurons, the human brain is dauntingly difficult to visualize and map, which can provide the route to therapies for long-intractable disorders. In a major advance published next week in Nature, scie...

Unlikely partners capture first glimpse of how worm brain develops Unlikely partners capture first glimpse of how worm brain develops Share: Advanced microscopes yield new images of live nerve development, lend insights into brain development Sometimes scientists discover exciting results after spending years searching for an answer to a single question. But sometimes discoveries are made by surprising collaborations and connections—resulting in answers to questions no one would have thought to ask. A paper published in Nature on February 24, 2021 has just such a story beh...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Yale researchers and collaborators have devised a strategy that allows them to see this previously impenetrable process unfold in a living animal -- the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, they report February... view more  Credit: The work is the result of a decade long collaboration between the labs of Colón-Ramos and Smita Krishnaswamy of Yale; Hari Shroff of the National Institutes of Health; Zhirong Bao... The formation of a brain is one of nature's most staggeringly complex accomplishments. The intricate intermingling of neurons and a labyrinth of connections also mak...

February 16, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this A view to the north from 100 College St., the future home of the Wu Tsai Institute. (Photo: Dan Renzetti) The human brain is the source and conduit of all ideas, beliefs, and dreams. It drives us to produce art, literature, and science, to feel and describe love, to invent for survival and diversion alike. Through it, we perceive, we wonder, we question: Why? How? What if? Researchers at Yale University have been studying the brain for generations. Now, a new and historic p...

Yahaira Alicea, left, a respiratory therapist who treated the first two COVID-19 patients hospitalised in Puerto Rico, receives a vaccine in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday, December 15. Alicea has become the first person in the US territory to be vaccinated against the virus. Photo: Associated Press/Carlos Giusti. ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico--A respiratory therapist who treated the first two COVID-19 patients hospitalised in Puerto Rico became the first person in the US territory to be vaccinated against the virus on Tuesday. ...