Using high-resolution MRI scans, Maria Pierce and the team at the Yopak ZoMBiE Lab are creating detailed 3D maps of sawfish brains to reveal how these remarkable animals develop, perceive their environment, and adapt throughout their lives.

Dissecting without a scalpel: digital segmentation of the brain of the smalltooth sawfishPhD student Maria Pierce (Yopak ZoMBiE Lab, University of North Carolina Wilmington, UNCW) spent several months training in magnetic resonance (MR) image acquisition and scanning numerous brains from ...saveourseas.com