Although most people usually focus on the brain cells when discussing brain preservation techniques, extracellular space is also worthy of consideration. In vivo, extracellular space makes up around 1/5th of overall brain volume, although this varies based on brain region, developmental stage, and surely many other factors. Over the past few months, Pallotto et al […]

Above is an image from Ma et al., a paper with new data from a fossil of the arthropod Fuxianhuia protensa, which is from the Maotianshan Shales in the Yunnan province of China. The authors were interested in the mechanism by which traces of this insect’s brain may have been preserved in fossil form. Since the carbon and […]

Biography: Adam Marblestone, PhD (personal website) is developing new approaches to accelerate brain science. He is currently a research scientist and Director of Scientific Architecting with the Synthetic Neurobiology group at MIT, led by Ed Boyden, where he invents and analyzes new technology concepts while helping to guide systems integration for large-scale brain mapping. In his […]

Dr. Kenneth D. Miller, Co-Director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University, in a recent editorial in the New York Times, “Will You Ever Be Able to Upload Your Brain?”,  recently raised several skeptical arguments about the possibility of brain uploading. A key point to take away from this essay is that Dr. Miller […]