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Brain initiative: Connectome of an entire mouse brain (human in decades?) [pdf]

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Re: Brain initiative: Connectome of an entire mouse brain (human in decades?) [pdf]

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The recent NIH brain initiative report describes the acquisition of a synaptic resolution connectome of an entire mouse brain using massively parallel electron microscopy. The 5 year plan seems a bit too optimistic to me, especially due to remaining difficulties in staining technology, but if successful, the project will definitely transform neuroscience.