Barcoding Brains
Connectomics — a technique that maps physical connections between neural cells — is expensive and inefficient. E11, a non-profit research group, is designing a tool to expedite progress.
Back to Articles Back to Articles Barcoding Brains Words by Xander Balwit Long Read Issue 05 Back to Articles Barcoding Brains Connectomics — a technique that maps physical connections between neural cells — is expensive and inefficient. E11 Bio, a non-profit research group, is designing a tool to expedite progress. Example H2 Example H3 On the afternoon of September 13th, 1848, a metal tamping rod sailed through Phineas Gage’s skull at dozens of miles an hour before coming to rest yards behind him in the Vermont leaf litter. En route, it obliterated Gage’s left frontal lobe, a few molars, a
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