MIT just produced three groundbreaking innovations that allowed them to map whole hemispheres of the human brain.
With over 85 billion neurons that have an average of 10,000 connections to other neurons, mapping the brain is practically impossible. More like a pipedream for neuroscience.
Significant steps have been made to crack though it’s more like “slice” open the brain to snap a picture of it, even its circuitry. However, due to its complexity, neuroscience hasn’t been able to get inside an “intact” brain. Until now.They created a “technology pipeline” that successfully captured full hemispheres in two donated brains, one of which had Alzheimer’s.A technology pipeline is a set of data processing elements that feed into one another.
From “sweeping landscapes of thousands of neurons” to “diverse forests of calls each in individual details” to “tufts of subcellular structures nestled among extracellular molecules,” never before has such a detailed picture of the brain been produced.Views at various scales of two kinds of neurons in the prefrontal cortex of a human brain.
Once the slice itself was viable, the next step required an expert chemist, Juhyuk Park. He developed “mELAST,” a technology that makes “each slice clear, flexible, durable, expandable, and quickly, evenly and repeatedly labelable.”
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