About 5,000 blastomere transplantations were performed, with the use of WT donor embryos carrying the Brn3c:mGFP transgene and WT or lak host embryos. Chimaeric embryos with donor-derived clones in ...

(Medical Xpress) -- Remarkably, cortical maps show that neurons in the primary visual cortex have specific preferences for the location and orientation of a given visual field stimulus – but how these ...

The formation of the retinotopic map depends on the action of axon guidance molecules, activity-dependent mechanisms and axonal competition. However, little is known about the plasticity potential of ...

Neuroscientists distinguish brain regions based on what they do, but now have a new way to overlay information about how they are built, too. To understand the massive capabilities and complexities of ...