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Wellcome Image of the Month: Christmas Cells
We are ending 2011 with a Wellcome Image Award Winner. This computer simulated image of pyramidal neurons was created using software called the TREES Toolbox, which allows scientists to create...
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The case of the missing neurons
An amyloid plaque in the brain Alzheimer’s disease is characterised by the substantial loss of neurons (nerve cells) in the brain. However, when researchers examine the brains of people who have died...
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The Portrait of a Fly (part 1): Come fly with me
For more than a hundred years, scientists have used the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) to study the fundamentals of developmental biology and genetics. But as biological understanding and...
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Image of the Week: Illuminated mouse neuron
This stunning image shows a mouse neuron, illuminated by a beam of light. The image comes from Dr Michael Hausser’s lab at UCL, which investigates neural computation and circuitry at the level of the...
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