Episode: One speck of brain, half a billion connections: Creating the world’s most detailed brain map.
A full wiring diagram of the brain could show how its different parts work together, and it could potentially reveal new insights into diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Podcast host Gabriel Spitzer visits Seattle’s Allen Institute on an episode of the Pocket Science podcast to explore their electron microscopy connectomics project and learn how researchers are using AI to parse over 100 million high resolution pictures of a slice of mouse brain the size of a poppyseed.