Get the latest tech news
Groundbreaking 3D brain scan generated 1.4 petabytes of data from millimeter-sized sample
The process began with a surgically removed sample of brain tissue taken from a woman with epilepsy during brain surgery meant to help control her seizures. After...
After chemical preparation to enhance contrast, the specimen was embedded in resin and sliced into an astounding 5,000 sections, each about a thousandth the thickness of a human hair. For one, the non-neuronal cells that support and insulate neurons outnumbered them by around 2-to-1, with oligodendrocytes being the most prevalent type, forming the protective myelin coating around axons. The map can be freely accessed by researchers from a web platform called Neuroglancer for their own studies into how the human cortex processes information and stores memories at this unprecedented resolution.
Or read this on r/technology
