How to Map Neural Circuits With an Electron Microscope
April 9, 2009 | Source: Wired Science
Moran Eye Institute coders and neuroscientists have teamed up to make a 20-terabyte map of the 70+ cells in the retina of a rabbit’s eye.
(Marc Lab/Moran Eye Institute)
By comparing healthy samples with pictures of damaged retinas, they can make sense of the diseases that cause blindness, and perhaps find ways to repair injured eyes.