Have you seen a human brain closely?

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I stumbled upon an article on the Nature magazine titled “Cubic millimeter of brain mapped in spectacular detail”. I could not help but to share the link and extract of it with all of you.

As per the report, Google scientists have mapped a tiny piece of the human brain in detail using an electron-microscope. The below picture shows the colored rendition of it. The neurons are colored according to their size. The research was carried out at Google Research & Lichtman Lab (Harvard University), and the rendering was done by Dr. Berger of Harvard University.

Picture credit: Nature magazine and Google.

The 3D map covers a volume of about one cubic millimeter, one-millionth of a whole brain, and contains roughly 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses — the connections between neurons. It incorporates a colossal 1.4 petabytes of data.

For more information on this, I encourage you to check Nature magazine website. You may also visit google dataset webpage for more information on this.