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Harvard University

neurons

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Scanning electron microscopy shows individual neurons in a piece of cerebral cortex. Data is on the scale of what Harvard and Google researchers will produce with the new connectome project. Cells are color-coded by size: red are largest neurons, blue smallest.

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Berger, Shapson-Coe, Januszewski et al., Harvard and Google

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