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Scientists Begin Mapping the Brain

Posted by kdawson on from the writing-it-down-in-silicon dept.

Raindance writes "A team at the University of Utah has unveiled a system to map and digitize brain tissue — thus fulfilling one of the long-standing holy grails of neuroscience and enabling for the first time in-depth analysis of how mammalian neural networks function. So far, maps for the entire retina and related neural networks have been released; no ETA on a full-brain digital reconstruction yet. (One of the lead authors hangs out here on Slashdot.)"

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  1. Re:The inevitable result... by holmstar · · Score: 0, Troll

    Back someone up? for what purpose? so that we can have a convincing simulation of the person should they die in an accident? It won't be the person you remember, just a mechanical copy.