Over a decade ago, a small piece of human brain was sent to Dr. Jeffrey Lichtman’s lab at Harvard. The sample came from an epilepsy patient undergoing surgery to reduce seizures. Since then, Lichtman’s team has meticulously reconstructed the complex wiring patterns of the brain using a $6 million device to slice the sample into extremely thin pieces. With images from electron microscopy, they recreated the intricate connections between individual brain cells.
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