Yale researchers have been working on 3D printing neuron models since 2013 and their project, which has since evolved into a 3D printable neuron model database, has just been published in the Frontiers in Neuroinformatics Journal, raising interest form neuroscientists everywhere.
While the opportunity to study physical 3D models of the neurons opens up a broad range of possibilities for scientists, arguably the biggest achievement of the Yale project is the establishment of the 3DModelDB repository for sharing the 3D printable neurons for educational and collaborative research purposes.