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·March 20, 2022·7 min read

An Open-Source Miniature Brain Microscope

A new miniature brain microscope, dubbed Mini2P, allows researchers to study neural network activity at high resolution in animals behaving naturally.

This shows a model of a head and a brain

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·March 22, 2021·2 min read

Focusing on the Unhealthy Brain to Speed Drug Discovery

A new open-source tool-kit allows researchers to accelerate the discovery of drugs to treat a range of neurological disorders.

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·January 22, 2020·5 min read

Google and Janelia researchers unveil biggest, most detailed map of the fly brain to date

FlyEM, a team of scientists from Google and the Janelia Research Campus at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has released the most complete map of the fly brain ever created. The map pinpoints millions of connections between 25,000 neurons. The researchers have made the data free online, along with all of the tools necessary to use it.

This is one of the baby brain scans from the collection

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·September 23, 2019·2 min read

Baby brain scans made available online to advance research

Researchers from the Developing Human Connectome Project have released over 500 brain scans from newborn babies as part of an open-source effort to allow other researchers to study human brain development.

This shows the developing nervous system of a chicken embryo from the microscope

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·September 16, 2019·3 min read

New microscopes unravel the mysteries of brain organization

mesoSPIM, a newly developed microscope, can image brain tissue down to individual neurons five times thinner than a human hair.

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·May 20, 2019·4 min read

Dog-like robot made by students jumps, flips and trots

Stanford Doggo, a student-designed dog-like robot, can perform a variety of acrobatic tricks and traverse challenging environments. The student investors have provided construction plans and parts lists online for DIY scientists who wish to build their own version of the robopup.

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·October 30, 2017·5 min read

Rousing Masses to Fight Cancer With Open Source Machine Learning

Georgia Tech researchers are calling on machine learning specialists and cancer researchers to help discover potential new therapies for oncological diseases.