INCF’s brain atlases (mouse, macaque, and human) are easy to browse online. The system has been around for several years now, and keeps getting better.
Of course, the Allen Institute also maintains some excellent atlases….
Randall Munroe did an xkcd cartoon a while back where he tried to explain a Saturn V rocket using only the 1000 most common words in English. The resulting work, entitled “Up Goer Five”, inspired…
My MD friends tell me there’s no effective cough medication on the market. There are OTC and prescription medicines, but none of them have been proven to really work. That doesn’t mean that they won’t give you some level of subjective relief, but they’re not like asprin or pseudoephedrine (e.g., regular Sudafed)*.
We used to…
One of the factors that limits the depth at which one can image brain tissue in vivo with two-photon imaging is out-of-plane fluorescence. Although the excitation falls off as the square of the distance from…
Previously on Labrigger: Street fighting mathematics
And on that topic, and this is something the runners among us might appreciate, the Fibonacci sequence can be used to easily convert miles to kms.
Take two consecutive…
I’ve seen this line in a methods section before:
“Experiments were carried out at room temperature (19-29 degrees C).”
Which means: “Our lab is in a building with no A/C and poor heating.”
For…
You can now post comments on PubPeer completely anonymously. Not even a login is required.
PubPeer has always allowed anonymous comments, but it used to be that you had to log in, so the…
Henry Markram got his wish. He was just awarded 500,000,000 Euros to build a computer model of the brain. In NIH terms, that’s over…
The last post on cheap optics reminded me of this 2003 paper where they showed that kitchen grade cellophane acts as a half-wave plate.
It was experimentally verified that an ordinary 25-????m-thick cellophane sheet possesses…
Figshare is an online database for storing figures, data, and papers. It’s been around for a while, but recently its really been taking off.
–You can post images, or entire paper PDFs. Also datasets.
–It’s…
Against middle management’s better judgement, Labrigger shirts are available now. Link to the store.
Just two designs right now. The one above, and the popular Guide…
A flurry of posts on the topic culminated in this from Lars Engstrom:
Turnout at the polls this year was low… but here are the results:
How would you complete this sentence:
using confocal and…
The GCaMP5 paper is out now. The paper looks fantastic. There’s tons of helpful information and impressive demonstrations of its performance in several popular model systems.
But isn’t GCaMP6 the best thing going? Is…
New analysis in PNAS is used to support several new conclusions:
Fraud is increasing. “The percentage of scientific articles retracted because of fraud has increased 10-fold since 1975.”
“…for articles in which the reason…
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