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Being fans of the books and various dramatizations of “Wurzel Gummidge” – we were thrilled to lean of a local (Northants) “Scarecrow Course” sponsored by the Labour government as a job creation scheme. As this is a wealthy area – the local landowners are always on the look-out for suitable candidates for this partly government funded training course. Initially, we had to watch all the Jeepers Creepers films and learn to run smoothly through the corn fields.
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.
“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.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 