The BRAIN Initiative, the 9-year-old, multibillion-dollar U.S. neuroscience effort, has announced its most ambitious challenge yet: compiling the world’s most comprehensive map of cells in the human brain.
The BRAIN Initiative, the 9-year-old, multibillion-dollar U.S. neuroscience effort, today announced its most ambitious challenge yet: compiling the world’s most comprehensive map of cells in the human brain. Scientists say the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network , funded with $500 million over 5 years, will help them understand how the human brain works and how diseases affect it.
Now, BICAN will characterize and map neural and nonneuronal cells across the entire human brain, which has 200 billion cells and is 1000 times larger than a mouse brain. “It’s using similar approaches but scaling up,” says Hongkui Zeng, director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, which won one-third of the BICAN funding. Zeng says the results of the effort will serve as a reference—a kind of Human Genome Project for neuroscience.
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