A decade ago, a small sample of brain tissue, no bigger than a grain of rice, arrived at Dr. Jeff Lichtman’s lab at Harvard University. This tiny piece, measuring just 1 cubic millimeter, held 57,000 cells and 150 million connections between those cells. It was an incredibly small but crucial part of the brain’s complex communication system.
Over the past ten years, Dr. Lichtman and a team of Google scientists have worked together to turn this tiny piece of brain tissue into something extraordinary: a detailed map of the human brain. And not just any map—a map made up of a massive 1,400 terabytes of data. To put it into perspective, a single terabyte is already huge, but this map holds so much more, showing how one tiny fragment of the brain contains far more data than most people could imagine.
The result is the most detailed 3-D reconstruction of the human brain ever created. This map isn’t just some boring chart—it’s a beautiful and intricate representation of how neu...
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