The scientists use an electron microscope to take a picture of each cross section ... of a piece of mouse brain, each less than 1/1,000 the thickness of a human hair, are readied to be imaged ...

Researchers have long used one version of this technology, known as blood oxygen level–dependent functional MRI (BOLD fMRI), to study how the human brain works ... full images of a particular ...

Previous research has found differences in gene expression between humans and chimpanzees, and that human cells tend to have higher gene expression, but the picture was blurry. The brain is made ...

Neuroscience examines the structure and function of the human brain and nervous system. Neuroscientists use cellular and molecular biology, anatomy and physiology, human behavior and cognition ...