Archive for the ‘Crowd Sourcing’ Category
The connectome is a map of all neural connections in a brain, which I believe only currently exists for the flatworm C. Elegans. Seung’s group and collaborators are working using serial electron microscopy, and partially automated EM analysis and the crowdsourcing site eyewire to reconstruct parts of the mouse retina, with the hope of steadily improving technologies […]
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Tags: Connectomics, Connectopathy, Development, Electron Microscopy, Neuroscience, Wiring