The team of scientists behind the project said the map of neuron wiring was so complex, it looked like a picture of a galaxy.

In the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, researchers from the University of Minnesota deployed an array of microscopic coils—microcoils—to create a magnetic field and stimulate ...

along with more than three miles of microscopic wiring — axons and smaller dendrites — and 523 million synapses connecting ...

However, definitive proof of the neuron theory was obtained only after the introduction of the electron microscope, which allowed identification of synapses between neurons 21. When the nervous ...

Subscribe for FREE Scientists have long known that a major molecule responsible for neuron-to-neuron communications is the ... level of single atoms), researchers used a very high-powered microscope ...