Name a Neuron!
In 2005, a shocking article came out in Nature. The authors of the article reported that they had discovered an incredible subset of …
Featured EyeWirer: @ketta
A behind the scenes look at the EyeWire community. Meet the EyeWirers who are mapping the retinal connectome. This week’s Featured EyeWirer is Jennifer Rose …
A New Way To Play EyeWire
A synapse! Yesterday we completed the first starburst cell. Today we have more news: the first synapse has been discovered in EyeWire …
Overview Temporarily Down
Due to a server error, the EyeWire overview is temporarily down. This means you won’t see a beautiful spinning neuron when you …
Featured EyeWirer: Jean-Francois Gariépy
A behind the scenes look at the EyeWire community. Meet the EyeWirers who are mapping the retinal connectome. This week’s Featured EyeWirer is Jean-Francois …
How do we know that there are 100 billion neurons in the brain?
Where did this estimate come from? Neuroscientists Bradley Voytek of UCSF and Paul King of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC …
Are we done yet?
It’s been exciting to see the J cell and the EyeWire community grow so quickly over the past few days. Yesterday we …
How much of the J cell is done?
It’s clear from the 3D overview on EyeWire that we have already mapped a large fraction of a J cell. It’s hard …
What’s so cool about the J cell?
J Day kicks off a campaign to map the J cell and its connections. Why are we so excited about the J? …