New view of mouse brain provides up-close look at nerve cells’ habitat
Detailed imaging shows that being near doesn’t mean making a connection
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CONNECT THE NEURONS In this computer rendering of a bit of mouse brain based on scanning electron images, some nerve cell dendrites touch an axon (green) and make connections (orange), while other dendrites don’t (blue).
N. Kasthuri et al/Cell 2015