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Even low-dose ultrasound (what they use on pregnant woman) results in ultrastructural changes in brains [0], specifically at the nodes of Ranvier (the gaps between myelin along axo…

In summer of 1997 I interned at the Santa Fe Institute. Barry McMullin was there as well, using swarm (an early cellular automata library) to reimplement and extend the original au…

True. And this approach continues - the IARPA MICrONs program is trying to do a mm cube of mouse visual cortex: https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/microns

In the fruit fly, neuronal cell types are highly morphologically stereotyped and identifiable across animals. This means that for a given cell type, you can collect data on electri…

Late to the party, but corresponding author on the paper here. Cool to see this on HN! We have less than "half the picture" here. Not just weights; also missing electrical synapses…

Hey cool, 3rd author Shane Gonin is now at Janelia (where my lab is) and I know a bit about this work. Funny to see it pop up here. The kind of electron microscopy (EM) of brain ti…

"The day will come when David Bowie is a star and the crushed remains of his melodies are broadcast from Muzak boxes in every elevator and hotel lobby in town." - Nancy Erlich, Jul…

Whups, forgot the email in my HN profile isn't visible, and now too late to edit the post; here are some links: - website & email: https://www.janelia.org/lab/bock-lab ; bockd@jane…

Bock lab, Janelia research campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) | Ashburn, VA | ONSITE Data scientist / Neurogeometer We recently finished acquiring an electron microscop…

Classic quote: “Harald is much smarter,” Betzig said. “When I left Bell Labs, I said ‘fuck you.’ When Harald left, he took all his equipment.”