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Apr 20, 2022

Researchers undertake challenge to image every cell in the human brain at unprecedented speed

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience

NEW YORK – A collaboration between researchers at Columbia and the Icahn School of Medicine is embarking on a project that will generate comprehensive atlases of entire human brains and all their 180+ billion cells. This kind of data can help uncover how the structure and organization of the brain give rise to behavior, emotion and cognition, in sickness and in health.

Credit: Hillman Lab/Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute.

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