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A fragment of human brain, mapped - EurekAlert


<p>A Harvard team led by Jeff Lichtman has co-created with Google researchers the largest synaptic-resolution, 3D reconstruction of a piece of human brain to date, showing in vivid detail each cell and its web of neural connections in a piece of human temporal cortex about half the size of a rice grain.</p>

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