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Google and Harvard University Created the Most Detailed Map of the Human Brain Ever!

After a decade of connectome research, the internal structure of the human brain has been mapped, according to an article published in the journal Science. Thanks to the research conducted in collaboration with Harvard University and Google, the structure of the brain can be better understood and neurological diseases can be treated.

Source: https://research.google/blog/ten-years-of-neuroscience-at-google-yields-maps-of-human-brain/

The human brain, which has been researched and tried to be understood since the ancient Egyptian and Greek civilizations, has a very complex structure.

The internal structure of the mole, which has been a subject of curiosity throughout the ages and has been subject to scientific research for decades, has been mapped. The achievement, published in the journal Science, was the result of Lichtman’s electron microscopy imaging and scientists at Google Research using artificial intelligence algorithms to color-code and reconstruct the complex connections of mammalian brains.

This study is the product of a collaboration that has been ongoing for approximately 10 years.

One cubic millimeter of brain tissue contains 1,400 terabytes of data!

The complex structure and data contained in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue may not sound like much. However, when we consider that this tiny piece contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels and 150 million synapses, and that all of this corresponds to 1,400 terabytes of data, the success of Harvard and Google researchers in this field is better understood.

The map allows us to see in detail each cell of the human temporal cortex and its neural connections, just the size of a grain of rice.

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard and newly appointed dean of science, Dr. A team led by Jeffrey Lichtman, together with Google researchers, has succeeded in creating the most detailed and three-dimensional image of a piece of the human brain. This image reveals in detail each cell of a grain of rice-sized human temporal cortex and its neural connections.

The end goal is to create a high-resolution map of the neural connections of the mouse brain!

This collaboration is supported by the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative, and its end goal is to create a high-resolution map of the neural connections of a mouse brain. This requires approximately 1,000 times the data obtained from 1 cubic millimeter of a mouse brain.

Dr. Jeffrey Lichtman stated that the word “piece” is ironic. ‘A terabyte is a pretty large amount for most people, but even a tiny piece of a human brain holds thousands of terabytes of data.’ said.

This map, which reveals the internal structure of the brain, may be hope for the treatment of neurological diseases!

The study, which allows cutting-edge artificial intelligence algorithms developed by Google to reconstruct and map brain tissue in three dimensions, may be important in the fight against neurological diseases. Researchers believe that the map will be a key to completely curing neurological diseases in the future.

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