The ultimate goal is to create a comprehensive, high-resolution map of a mouse's neural wiring, which would entail about 1,000 times the amount of data the group just produced from the 1-cubic-millimeter fragment of human cortex.
The latest map contains never-before-seen details of brain structure, including a rare but powerful set of axons connected by up to 50 synapses.
"A terabyte is, for most people, gigantic, yet a fragment of a human brain - just a minuscule, teeny-weeny little bit of human brain - is still thousands of terabytes."
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