PUTTING THE MOUSE BRAIN ON THE MAP A pioneering ‘connectomics’ collaboration is the latest effort to unravel the brain’s myriad functions, bringing neuroscientists into challenging new territory. By Michael Eisenstein
https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-024-01096-3/d41586-024-01096-3.pdf

This is an amazing story of a complex collaboration to completely map a tiny volume--a cubic mm s "densely packed with tens of thousands of neurons and other cells in a staggeringly complex architectural weave."

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New version of the reference atlas mapping software ANTsX includes a brain development timepoint interpolation function, quite useful:

The ANTsX Ecosystem for Mapping the Mouse Brain
Tustinson et al., preprint at biorxiv 2024
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.01.592056

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Team discovers second stem cell type in mouse brain

In the brain of adult mammals, neural stem cells ensure that new nerve cells (neurons), are constantly formed. This process, known as adult neurogenesis, helps mice maintain their sense of smell. A research team led by Dr. Francesca Ciccolini at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences (IZN) of Heidelberg University recently discovered a second stem cell population in the mouse brain. This new type of stem cell is primarily involved in the production of new neurons in the olfactory bulb of adult mice.

Medical Xpress