Blue Brain Project scientists create a 'slice' of digital BRAIN tissue

If you want to learn how something works it helps to take it apart and put it back together again. The result is the first digital reconstruction of brain tissue ever made that contains 31,000 neurons, 55 layers of cells and 207 different neuron subtypes each mapped and connected accurately It is the latest step in the Blue Brain Project at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. MAKING BRAINS TRANSPARENT Last month, researchers at the Riken Brain Science Institute in Japan developed a technique for turning brain tissue transparent to make it easier to study and illuminate the 3D brain's anatomy. Last month, researchers at the Riken Brain Science Institute in Japan developed a technique for making brain tissue transparent to make it easier to study and illuminate the 3D brain's anatomy. Last month, researchers at the Riken Brain Science Institute in Japan developed a technique for making brain tissue transparent.