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Amazingly Detailed Map Reveals How the Brain Changes With Aging:
Last week, in a technological tour-de-force, a European team from the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden, led by Dr. Seth G.N. Grant at the University of Edinburgh, redefined impossibility with a paper in Science. Peering into the brains of mice at different ages—one day, one week, and all the way up to an elderly 18 months—the team constructed maps of roughly 5 billion synapses, outlining a timeline of their diversity and numbers in over 100 different brain regions with age.
[...] In their new study, the team built a time map of synapses in the mouse brain, which they call the “lifespan synaptome architecture,” or LSA. The project is part of the Mouse Lifespan Synaptome Atlas, which comes with an assortment of tools for researchers to dig into to better understand how our brains age with time.
To build their synaptic timeline, the team analyzed the brain of a type of transgenic mice that have some proteins in their synapses highlighted with a fluorescent protein. The team picked ten points in their lifespan, covering the entire range of newly born to adolescent to adulthood and the elderly.
Journal Reference:
Mélissa Cizeron, Zhen Qiu, Babis Koniaris, et al. A brain-wide atlas of synapses across the mouse lifespan [$], Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.aba3163)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @02:42PM (8 children)
Now that Vulcan is downsizing, I wonder what is going to happen to his brain mapping project
and to all of the research they've done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @02:59PM
They'll translate the map for mouse brains. Oh, wait...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @03:07PM (1 child)
It will be used to make glossy magazine covers for Venture Capitalist Monthly as an incentive to bored billionaires to donate millions of dollars to vanity projects that glorify unearned wealth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @09:32PM
That's is a mightly Communist statement. I hope it won't catch up with you in 20 years when all old databases will be scoured, and people exhibiting sympathy for Communism will get blacklisted.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday June 17 2020, @05:00PM (4 children)
Substitute Ferengi brains. Continue research. Accumulating new results (on Ferengi brains) to existing results (on Vulcan brains).
Publish.
See if anyone will notice.
Everyone happy.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @05:18PM (2 children)
> Kelloggs Corn Flakes, while commercially successful, was a total failure at preventing masturbation.
??
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @05:20PM
You've clearly been eating them wrong.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Wednesday June 17 2020, @07:15PM
It was two Kelloggs brothers. About 1900 or thereabout. One ran an institution for the criminally insane. The other created the cereal to help control various urges at the other brother's request. One or both of them were Seventh Day Adventists. There are more details, as I seem to recall, on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_flakes [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday June 17 2020, @06:14PM
Most will not notice because the results will be buried behind a paywall.
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