A research consortium has published a flurry of papers detailing a “major step forward” in our knowledge of the human brain. The project includes a draft genomic atlas of the brain that authors say could boost neuroscience much as the human genome project advanced genomics.
Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously known, and have only a dim notion of what most of them do.
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