{"id":211000,"date":"2025-04-09T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-map-part-of-a-mouses-brain-thats-so-complex-it-looks-like-a-galaxy"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:06:01","slug":"scientists-map-part-of-a-mouses-brain-thats-so-complex-it-looks-like-a-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-map-part-of-a-mouses-brain-thats-so-complex-it-looks-like-a-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Scientists map part of a mouse\u2019s brain that\u2019s so complex it looks like a galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-map-part-of-a-mouses-brain-thats-so-complex-it-looks-like-a-galaxy3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a mouse watching clips from \u201cThe Matrix,\u201d scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date\u2014a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.<\/p>\n<p>Using a piece of that mouse\u2019s brain about the size of a poppy seed, the researchers identified those neurons and traced how they communicated via branch-like fibers through a surprising 500 million junctions called synapses.<\/p>\n<p>The massive dataset, published Wednesday by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/immersive\/d42859-025-00001-w\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">journal <i>Nature<\/i>,<\/a> marks a step toward unraveling the mystery of how our brains work. The data, assembled in a 3D reconstruction colored to delineate different brain circuitry, is open to scientists worldwide for additional research\u2014and for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microns-explorer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">simply curious<\/a> to take a peek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a mouse watching clips from \u201cThe Matrix,\u201d scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date\u2014a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages. Using a piece of that mouse\u2019s brain about the size of a poppy seed, the researchers identified those neurons and traced how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211000","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}