NIH Director's Blog: BRAIN-funded scientist, Elizabeth Hillman has pioneered the pairing of a 3D live-imaging microscope with an ultra-fast camera, called Swept Confocally Aligned Planar Excitation (SCAPE) microscopy.
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NIH BRAIN Initiative launches projects to develop innovative technologies to map the brain in incredible detail
In the human brain, 86 billion neurons form more than 100 trillion connections with other neurons at junctions called synapses. Scientists are now working on an ambitious effort to develop technologies to map these connections across the brain, from mice to humans.
View Spotlight ArticleFriday, October 18, 2019
Scientists have been developing astounding new tools for exploring neural circuits that underlie brain function throughout the first five years of the NIH’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
NIH BRAIN Initiative collaboration looking at clinical research considerations
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
The NIH-led Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative is revolutionizing our understanding of how the brain works through its creation of new imaging tools. One of the latest advances—used to produce this rainbow of images—makes it possible to view dozens of proteins in rapid succession in a single tissue sample containing thousands of neural connections, or synapses.
Friday, May 3, 2019
Did you miss out on the annual BRAIN Initiative Investigators meeting last month? Catch up here!
Friday, November 2, 2018
November 2, 2018
NIH announces new round of awards for cutting-edge brain research
Monday, August 20, 2018
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