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Re:Network of 75 Million Neurons of the Mouse Brain Mapped f... by return0 on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @08:25PM (#7595204)
They seem to be coming up with great work there. Unfortunately, thousands of neuroscientists who have been sharing huge funds the past decade couldn't come up with a big project like this one, it had to take private initiative to map a mouse. To me this shows how badly allocated funding sets the bar too low for most neuroscience teams.

And for those who say that this is not a big deal, it actually is a very big deal. Not only for the connection map of the brain, which may or may not lead to simulating a brain (we are far from that yet), but because we can analyze the distributions of connections and their weights to infer possible functional roles.

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