The genome of the last living wild horse species has now been mapped

After it nearly became extinct, the entire genome of an endangered Przewalski’s horse has been sequenced by a team at the University of Minnesota Przewalski’s horse (Equus ferus przewalskii), also known as the takhi, Asian wild horse, Mongolian … [+] wild horse or Dzungarian wild horse, is a rare and endangered horse native to the … Read more

New 3D map mapped with Google AI reveals ‘mysterious but beautiful’ piece of human brain

Colorful, rainbow colored rendering of thousands of neurons from a brain sample that have been assembled in a map

Researchers have mapped a tiny slice of the human brain on an unprecedented scale, vividly visualizing every brain cell, or neuron, and the intricate networks they form with other cells. The groundbreaking brain map, created by researchers at Harvard and Google, reveals about 57,000 neurons, 230 millimeters of blood vessels and 150 million synapses, or … Read more