{"id":93237,"date":"2019-07-07T16:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T23:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/scientists-succeed-in-mapping-every-neuron-in-a-worm-a-breakthrough-in-neuroscience"},"modified":"2019-07-07T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T23:42:44","slug":"scientists-succeed-in-mapping-every-neuron-in-a-worm-a-breakthrough-in-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/scientists-succeed-in-mapping-every-neuron-in-a-worm-a-breakthrough-in-neuroscience","title":{"rendered":"Scientists succeed in mapping every neuron in a worm, a breakthrough in neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GgZHziFWR7M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a way, the connectome is also a foundation for understanding far more complex nervous systems like our own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a worm can do so much with so few neurons, and we have orders of magnitude more neurons,\u201d Paul Sternberg, a biology professor at the California Institute of Technology <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/worm-wiring-diagram-may-help-us-understand-our-own-nervous-system\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>in Pasadena, told <em>Scientific American<\/em>, \u201cthen we\u2019re amazing<\/strong><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The datasets that were generated from and analysed in the current study are available at <em><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wormwiring.org\/\">wormwiring.org<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a way, the connectome is also a foundation for understanding far more complex nervous systems like our own. \u201cIf a worm can do so much with so few neurons, and we have orders of magnitude more neurons,\u201d Paul Sternberg, a biology professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, told Scientific American, \u201cthen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93237","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}