Harvard researchers, along with colleagues at Google Research, have created the largest 3D human brain reconstruction to date, showing in vivid detail each cell and its web of connections in a piece of temporal cortex about half the size of a rice grain.

From Jeff Lichtman and colleagues. First authors Alexander Shapson-Cole, Daniel Berger, and Michał Januszewski (Google). Featured by the Boston Globe, CNN, Harvard Gazette, and MCB department news.