Map of the Human Brain

“Ten years ago, Dr. Jeff Lichtman — a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University — received a small brain sample in his lab.

Although tiny, the 1 cubic millimeter of tissue was big enough to contain 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels and 150 million synapses.

‘It was less than a grain of rice, but we began to cut it and look at it, and it was really beautiful,’ he said. ‘But as we were accumulating the data, I realized that we just had way, way more than we could handle.’

Eventually, Lichtman and his team ended up with 1,400 terabytes of data from the sample — roughly the content of over 1 billion books. Now, after the lab team’s decade of close collaboration with scientists at Google, that data has turned into the most detailed map of a human brain sample ever created.”

Read more on Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain via CNN.