{"id":128636,"date":"2021-10-06T19:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T02:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/how-the-worlds-biggest-brain-maps-could-transform-neuroscience"},"modified":"2021-10-06T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T02:23:01","slug":"how-the-worlds-biggest-brain-maps-could-transform-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/how-the-worlds-biggest-brain-maps-could-transform-neuroscience","title":{"rendered":"How the world\u2019s biggest brain maps could transform neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-worlds-biggest-brain-maps-could-transform-neuroscience2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The largest projects started in 2,013 when the US government and the European Commission launched \u2018moonshot\u2019 efforts to provide services to researchers that will help to crack the mammalian brain\u2019s code. They each poured vast resources into large-scale systematic programmes with different goals. The US effort \u2014 which is estimated to cost US$6.6 billion up until 2027 \u2014 has focused on developing and applying new mapping technologies in its BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative (see \u2018Big brain budgets\u2019). The European Commission and its partner organizations have spent \u20ac607 million ($703 million) on the Human Brain Project (HBP), which is aimed mainly at creating simulations of the brain\u2019s circuitry and using those models as a platform for experiments.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists around the world are working together to catalogue and map cells in the brain. What have these huge projects revealed about how it works?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest projects started in 2,013 when the US government and the European Commission launched \u2018moonshot\u2019 efforts to provide services to researchers that will help to crack the mammalian brain\u2019s code. They each poured vast resources into large-scale systematic programmes with different goals. The US effort \u2014 which is estimated to cost US$6.6 billion up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}