Brain Awareness Week: Victory to Team Soma!
Wooooo! Our somas have propelled themselves to victory over our synapses. All parts of a neural circuit are equally important, but perhaps …
Alice’s Adventures in Neuroland
It’s been an ordinary afternoon, perhaps, but for anyone with an active imagination there’s never quite such a thing as “ordinary.” Here …
A Cortex Neuron Mural at Princeton by Kfay
Everything you think and feel is manifested in the brain as electrical and chemical activity within an extraordinarily complex network of neurons. …
EyeWire’s First Scientific Discovery and Nature Paper
Today we are excited to share that EyeWire’s first scientific discovery has been published in Nature! Why does it matter? This discovery …
Fly through the Brain with a New EyeWire Animation
Fly through neurons you’ve helped discover in EyeWire with an amazing new animation by Seung Lab’s Alex Norton. Here you see a …
EyeWire Completes First Set of Synaptic Connections!
The EyeWire community has completed its first set of synaptic connections! We recently debuted a new way to play EyeWire with 9 seed …
Featured EyeWirer: Karen Lynn Robinson
A behind the scenes look at the EyeWire community. Meet the EyeWirers who are mapping the retinal connectome. This week’s Featured EyeWirer is Karen Lynn …
The Starburst Neuron is Complete!
We’ve finished our first starburst amacrine cell! This was a very challenging neuron, because its dendrites were so thin and difficult to …