This is not actually a genomic news, but the new CLARITY brain imaging technique just appeared on Nature is so fascinating that I have to share the video!
This demonstrate how far we have gone in our ability to map the activity of single cells and open amazing possibilities for future studies, promising to provide knowledge on how the brain response to stimuli or coordinate body activities.
The construction of a complete and informative map of the neuron interactions seems feasible and it is a hot topic right now. The US BRAIN project (recently founded with 100 million $ by Obama administration) and the European Human Brain Project (HBP) (founded with 1 billion euros for ten years as one of the EU FET-flegship), are two huge international initiatives, just started to accomplish this ambitious goal.
Someone have already pointed to the brain map as the third revolutionizing achievement after the Human Genome Project and the ENCODE project.
See your brain, with plenty of colourful neuron cell...
This time you can literally say: this is a brilliant idea!
And THIS is amazing science!
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