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 …
Weekly EyeWire Stats
A Starburst Neuron Update and Last Week’s Top EyeWirers Happy New Year! Holiday celebrations came early at EyeWire. On December 15th, a day that …
Two’s company!
We’ve mapped our second J cell! (See this earlier post to find out how we judge completion.) The EyeWire community continues to …
Let’s CELLebrate!
We completed our first neuron! It’s been a big week for EyeWire. We officially launched Monday. On Tuesday we experienced a terminator-style meltdown induced …
EyeWire’s J Day: The Official Launch
EyeWire launches today with J Day! It’s time to mobilize a global community of citizen neuroscientists to trace the 3D structure of …
Carl Zimmer writes about EyeWire in Discover Magazine | The Brain: Connections May Be the Key
The Brain: Connections May Be the Key Once we model the connectome—the million billion points of contact between neurons in the brain—we’ll glimpse …