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"NeuroWorm" fibre has other advantages over traditional devices,

China: Newly Developed ‘NeuroWorm’ – a Breakthrough for Neural Monitoring! (3.10.2025)

Furthermore, the fibre possesses excellent competency in softness. Long-term experiments on mice showed high biocompatibility, with the microfiber remaining in muscles for up to 13 months without adverse reactions, the researchers said.

“A key innovation lies in the fibre’s ability to navigate within the body. Using an open magnetic control strategy, we achieved initial controlled movement and steering within tissues, allowing the fibre to move like an earthworm through soil and record neural signals all along the path without the need for additional surgeries,” said Yan.

Zhu Meifang, a strategic adviser of the study, who is also director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Fibre Materials at Donghua University, said this breakthrough aims to transition bioelectronics from fixed passive recording to mobile intelligent collaboration.

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3-D Map Brain - Socialist Science Triumphs!

China: Scientists Create Most Detailed 3D Map of Mouse Brain! (6.7.2025)

International experts hailed the work. Doctor Javier de Felipe of Spain’s Cajal Institute called it “a highly significant achievement”, while Australian neuroscientist George Paxinos — whose own mouse atlases are lab staples — praised the “unprecedented” data quality.

The team aims to expand the stereotaxic topographic atlas’ applications, from testing drugs to guiding brain-machine interfaces. Luo also highlighted Hainan province’s unique resources: “With our primate research resources, this work could bridge mouse studies to human brain exploration.”

“While we’ve mapped distant galaxies, the human brain remains one of science’s final frontiers,” Luo said. The stereotaxic topographic atlas now bridges this gap, proving how microscopic breakthroughs – down to a single micron — can illuminate humanity’s most complex organ.

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Lobes of the Human Brain!

China: Scientists Map Neural Network of Hippocampus in Mouse Brain! (5.2.2024)

“Such previously unknown spatial organization principles of single neuron projections will provide a structural basis for a better understanding the function of hippocampal neurons,” said Xu Chun, a leading researcher on the team and a correspondent author of the paper.

“This enormous dataset (in the paper) provides unprecedented insights into the divergence of hippocampal output, bilateral projections and some of the principles of hippocampal projections at the level of individual neurons,” said one peer review.

Poo said the research results will provide a foundation to work out a function map of the single neurons in the mouse hippocampus to discover how signals are transmitted and which single neurons and signals are related to particular brain functions, such as memory, learning and emotions.

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