(L to R) Yifeng Zhang, Markus Meister, Joshua R. Sanes, In-Jung Kim What does the eye tell the brain? Two very different answers have been proposed. In one…
Guo-Liang “Chewie” Chew (L) and Ghazal Ashrafi Two MCB graduate students, Guo-Liang “Chewie” Chew (rising G3, Schier Lab) and Ghazal Ashrafi (rising G4, Schwarz Lab at Harvard Medical School)…
(L to R) Dimitar Kostadinov, Joshua Sanes, and Julie Lefebvre Neurons in the brain extend elaborately branched dendrites that receive inputs from other neurons and sensory stimuli. In…
Biological systems are inherently noisy: they contain randomness beyond an observer’s control. The most common approach to deal with noise is simply to throw it away: by…
Severe microbial infections, such as tuberculosis and MRSA, often require treatment with three (or more) drugs. Multidrug therapies are currently discovered by empirically testing large numbers of potentially…
You can't miss it in the news these days: neuroscientists are excited about anatomical reconstruction of neural connectivity. In fact, the term "connectomics" is a frequently-edited entry in…
The goal of this study was to investigate the pattern of nerve connections between motor neurons and muscle fibers in newborn and embryonic animals. Previous work by us…
A central goal in neuroscience is to understand how diverse types of neurons interact to form complex networks. A critical step toward this goal is to find out…
