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This Is the Most Detailed Map of Human Brain Connections Ever Made
In a world first, Harvard biologists worked with Google to diagram a cubic millimeter of human cerebral cortex at the subcellular level, paving the way for the next generation of brain science.
Jeff Lichtman, a professor in molecular and cellular biology at Harvard, explains that researchers in his lab, led by Alex Shapson-Coe, created the brain map by taking subcellular pictures of the tissue using electron microscopy. Some of the segmentation required what Lichtman called “ground-truth data,” which involved Berger (who worked closely with Google’s team) manually redrawing some of the tissue by hand to further inform the algorithms. In terms of future projects, the Harvard Lichtman lab plans to continue its collaboration with Google to “factor this rendering up another scale of a thousand” by studying a whole mouse brain.
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