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Swelling along brain’s axons may be true culprit in Alzheimer’s disease

The formation of amyloid plaques in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. But drugs designed to reduce accumulations of these plaques have so far yielded, at best, mixed results in clinical ...
News Medical

Reimagining axons with the pearls-on-a-string model

In a provocative new study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, thin filaments radiating from nerve cells that transmit electrical signals ...
PBS

How a mouse watching ‘The Matrix’ helped scientists create the largest map of a brain to date

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...
Wired

A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain Cells

You can 3D-print nearly anything: rockets, mouse ovaries, and for some reason, lamps made of orange peels. Now, scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, have printed living neural ...
MIT Technology Review

Tiny tubes wrap around brain cells

The devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain and possibly treat disease. Wearable devices like smart watches and fitness trackers help us measure and learn from physical ...
The Conversation

Brain wrinkles and folds matter – researchers are studying the mechanics of how they form

Mir Jalil Razavi receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Weiying Dai receives funding from National Science Foundation. The human brain has been called the most complex object in the ...