Jul 7, 2019
Scientists succeed in mapping every neuron in a worm, a breakthrough in neuroscience
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: mapping, neuroscience
In a way, the connectome is also a foundation for understanding far more complex nervous systems like our own.
“If a worm can do so much with so few neurons, and we have orders of magnitude more neurons,” Paul Sternberg, a biology professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, told Scientific American, “then we’re amazing.”