Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Part Of A Rat’s Brain

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A photo of the virtual brain slice, containing around 30,000 individual neurons. Markham/EPFL

Scientists have managed to digitally reconstruct a portion of rat brain, albeit a really small piece. In the first draft of what is possibly one of the most sophisticated neural simulations ever created, researchers have modeled over 30,000 neurons connected by 40 million synapses. They have even been able to alter the inputs into the model and watch how the signals from individual neurons ripple through the simulation.