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What to Expect from Pyr Gameplay

Two new preprints titled Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex  and Petascale neural circuit reconstruction: automated methods reveal the mindboggling …

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Pyr Science Q&A

On Thursday, July 29, 2021, the most detailed examination of mammalian brain circuitry to date was released from Princeton University’s Seung Lab, The …

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Ashwin Answers Mystic Questions

@KrzysztofKruk asks: I wonder, what are those seemingly empty quasi-spherical structures, which we can see in some of the synapses. In some …

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2019 Neo Update

If you play Eyewire, you’ve probably heard us talk about Neo for what seems like years and years and years. It’s a …

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Muller Cells, Glia of the Retina

  Is that Skeletor I see under my microscope? Almost. The glowing creatures from Grim’s Carnival Marathon art are inspired by real cells …

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Sparkling Chandeliers of Cortex

What’s in a brain? So many cells; such great variety! When it comes to neurons, they can be broadly categorized as either …