Build a brain: study reveals principles behind brain tissue structure and assembly in C. elegans

Members of the WormGUIDES consortium, including researchers from Yale University School of Medicine (CT, USA) and the Sloan Kettering Institute (NY, USA) have collaborated to elucidate the structure of the Caenorhabditis elegans neuropil. The resulting paper, published in Nature, presents detailed maps of the layered neuropil structure and analyzes the developmental processes that occur to create it. “Neuropil is a tissue-level organization seen in many different types of brains, from worms to humans,” explained corresponding author of the study, Daniel Colón-Ramos (Yale School of Medicine). “But trying to understand neuropil structure and function is very challenging. It's like looking at...