Available Now in 3-D: An Ultra-High Resolution Brain (4 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Available Now in 3-D: An Ultra-High Resolution Brain (4 of 5)

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Researchers use a special tool called a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into tiny slivers 20-micromters thick. The researchers cut the brain into over 7,400 such sections. Each highly-folded section was stained to detect cell bodies. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 21, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Katrin Amunts at Research Centre Jülich in Jülich, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "BigBrain: An Ultrahigh-Resolution 3D Human Brain Model."

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[Image courtesy of Amunts, Zilles, Evans <i>et al</i>.]

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