Breaking Down Barriers (Summer Science Series Pt. 2)
In microscopy, neuroscientists use photons (light particles) and electrons (charged particles) to zoom in on bits of brain tissue. And a select …
Innovation in Imaging (Summer Science Series Pt. 1)
We’ve told you how centuries of innovation in biological imaging brought us to serial block face imaging, the technique we used to …
Connectomics Lesson Plan: EyeWire Edu
Background information Connectomics is the study of connectomes, the comprehensive maps of neuronal projections and connections. In order to understand connectomes it …
EyeWire Edu
Hello Teachers! We’ve heard that you’re using EyeWire in your classrooms to teach students about neuroscience and citizen science, and we want …
EyeWire Edu: Calling All Teachers
EyeWire has so far been used in dozens of classrooms around the world. This spring, we’re working with a couple talented undergraduate …
And you thought mapping neurons was easy
There are about 85 billion neurons in one human brain. These are all branches of just one cell: a starburst neuron in the …
How Do We See In Color?
Cones, the photoreceptor cells in the retina responsible for color vision, recognize either red, green or blue (these primary colors correspond to …
EyeLearn on EyeWire!
In 2010, the NIH announced that it would award 40 million to fund the Human Connectome Project. The goal of this …