Allen Institute Leads Global Effort to Map Human Brain
Allen Institute researchers are leading a new global collaboration to map the approximately 200 billion cells in the human brain by their type and function.
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Allen Institute researchers are leading a new global collaboration to map the approximately 200 billion cells in the human brain by their type and function.
/PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at the Allen Institute are launching the brain equivalent of the Human Genome Project, leading a new global collaboration to map the...
The scientists who will be spearheading the research compare its scale and scope to the push to sequence the first human genome.
The organizers are likening the international collaboration, which will also create atlases of the macaque and marmoset brain, to a Human Genome Project for the brain.
An atlas showing how Alzheimer's changes individual brain cells could help researchers find new treatments for the disease.