In a scientific first, researchers from around 29 universities and institutions across North America have teamed up to create a large, versatile, and effective arsenal of new biological tools that ...

Sometimes, it is brain surgery, and Jim Pearson is the first to admit it’s not easy to overhaul the way neurosurgeons do their extremely delicate job. For 15 years, Pearson has nudged, coaxed and ...

In the mid-2000s, Mark Kotter, MD, PhD, was running a lab studying oligodendrocytes when he started his training in neurosurgery. As a neurosurgeon, he had access to rare brain samples and was able to ...

image: The Julich Brain Atlas forms a centerpiece of the open access Multilevel Human Brain Atlas of the digital research infrastructure EBRAINS, which has been built by the Human Brain Project (HBP).

The Brain Modeling Toolkit (BMTK) is an open-source platform for creating, simulating, and analyzing neural networks at multiple biological scales. Paired with BMTool and high-performance computing, ...

What do the number “3,” the word “point” and online resource books have in common? They’re handy go-to tools for crafting and communicating clear, coherent and action-oriented messages. This “holy ...

This article was taken from the November 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...