Rebecca Boyle

Rebecca Boyle is an award-winning science writer covering astronomy, zoonoses and everything in between. She writes for Popular Science, Wired and New Scientist, among other publications for adults and children.

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Spectrum

By Rebecca Boyle

3 February 2016

14 min read

The brain’s secret gardeners

Once thought merely to be specialized immune system cells, microglia now appear to be master landscapers of the developing brain.

Spectrum

The brain’s secret gardeners

By Rebecca Boyle

3 February 2016 | 14 min read

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A new atlas of abstracts visualizes the field of human brain mapping—where does your work fit?

Satrajit Ghosh talks to Mac Shine about a community-built tool that places every abstract from the 2026 Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting inside a semantic map of the broader neuroscience literature. Finding your neighbors in that space might matter more than you think.