UC Berkeley is partnering with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle on a $65.5 million, five-year effort to count, catalog and connect the many different cell types in the mouse brain, as a foundation for doing the same for the human brain.
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Allen Institute-led consortium represents an international team of scientists that will construct a comprehensive whole-brain atlas of cell types, essentially a parts list of the mouse brain. The effort is part of the federal government’s BRAIN Initiative, announced in 2013 with the ultimate goal of understanding brain circuits well enough to devise new therapies for diseases of the human brain and nervous system.
Read more from Berkeley News | October 23rd, 2017: https://news.berkeley.edu/2017/10/23/65-5-million-from-nih-to-create-bra...