Harvard affiliates developed a silicon chip that successfully mapped more than 70,000 synaptic connections from 2,000 rat neurons — advancing a new recording technology to address existing limitations ...

Ten years ago, Dr. Jeff Lichtman — a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University — received ... has turned into the most detailed map of a human brain sample ever created.

Harvard researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a ...