A nanoscale project represents a giant leap forward in understanding the human brain.<\/p>\n

With more than 1.4 petabytes of electron microscopy imaging data, a team of scientists has reconstructed a teeny-tiny cubic segment of the human brain.<\/p>\n

It’s just a millimeter on each side \u2013 but 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, and 230 millimeters of ultrafine veins are all packed into that microscopic space.<\/p>\n

The work of almost a decade, it’s the largest and most detailed reproduction of the human brain to date down to the resolution of the synapses, the structures that allow neurons to transmit signals between them.<\/p>\n

“The word ‘fragment’ is ironic,” says neuroscientist Jeff Lichtman of Harvard University. “A terabyte is, for most people, gigantic, yet a fragment of a human brain \u2013 just a miniscule, teeny-weeny little bit of human brain \u2013 is still thousands of terabytes.”<\/p>\n

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