Creating an Atlas of the Human Brain


	Creating an Atlas of the Human Brain
Kelika
3-28-2009 7:25 PM
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3-28-2009 7:43 PM
chestnut501
Kind of yucky but still a good clip
3-28-2009 9:16 PM
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With $55 million, a collection of frozen human brains and robots capable of processing 192 brain slices a day, the Allen Brain Institute is attempting to do the impossible: systematically map out the expression patterns of more than 20,000 genes that make our grey matter tick. 
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margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/multimedia/2009/03/ff_brainatlas_gallery?slide=8&slideView=8" href="http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/multimedia/2009/03/ff_brainatlas_gallery?slide=8&slideView=8" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/multimedia/2009/03/ff_brainatlas_gallery?slide=8&slideView=8">The top is colored with silver stain, and the bottom treated with thionine.
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margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/multimedia/2009/03/ff_brainatlas_gallery?slide=9&slideView=9" href="http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/multimedia/2009/03/ff_brainatlas_gallery?slide=9&slideView=9" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/multimedia/2009/03/ff_brainatlas_gallery?slide=9&slideView=9">A coronal section of a human brain is stained with hematoxylin and eosin.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/multimedia/2009/03/ff_brainatlas_gallery?slide=9&slideView=9"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/EA7B0ECE-4BCE-4570-B463-88A6E808C511" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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A coronal section of a whole human brain stained with thionine. Analysis of all slides and samples will be completed by 2012.
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