{"id":143157,"date":"2022-07-30T00:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T05:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/scientists-build-subcellular-map-of-entire-brain-networks"},"modified":"2022-07-31T11:17:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T16:17:26","slug":"scientists-build-subcellular-map-of-entire-brain-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/scientists-build-subcellular-map-of-entire-brain-networks","title":{"rendered":"Scientists build subcellular map of entire brain networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-subcellular-map-of-entire-brain-networks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed an imaging technique to capture information about the structure and function of brain tissue at subcellular level\u2014a few billionths of a meter, while also capturing information about the surrounding environment.<\/p>\n<p>The unique approach detailed in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> today (25 May), overcomes the challenges of imaging tissues at different scales, allowing scientists to see the surrounding cells and how they function, so they can build a complete picture of neural networks in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Various imaging methods are used to capture information about <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/tissue\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tissue<\/a>, cells and subcellular structures. However, a single method can only capture information about either the structure or function of the tissue and looking in detail at a nanometer scale means scientists lose information about the wider surroundings. This means that to gain an overall understanding of the tissue, imaging techniques need to be combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed an imaging technique to capture information about the structure and function of brain tissue at subcellular level\u2014a few billionths of a meter, while also capturing information about the surrounding environment. The unique approach detailed in Nature Communications today (25 May), overcomes the challenges of imaging tissues at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143308,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143157\/revisions\/143308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}