Why Not Google Map Your Body?

Researchers have used Google Maps tech to create zoomable "maps" of the human body.

No, you won't need Dennis Quaid to travel to the Innerspace of your body—just a little Google Maps know-how. Researchers at the University of South Wales, borrowing the algorithms Google Maps uses to make sense of large volumes of data, have mapped out human tissues down to the level of the human cell, says Gizmodo. They scanned a human hip joint with an electron microscope and used the scale-zooming Maps algorithms to accomplish molecular analysis in weeks that would have previously taken 25 years. And they have even put it online for you to peer into the molecular mysteries of the human hip.

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