{"id":1713,"date":"2010-11-18T15:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T04:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2010-11-18T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T04:06:56","slug":"the-human-brain-goes-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/medicine\/the-human-brain-goes-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"The human brain goes digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1714\" title=\"brain\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/brain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: The brain observatory<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The first-ever 3D human brain &#8220;atlas&#8221;\u009d is on the horizon. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, neuroanatomist Jacopo Annese and his team at the University of California at San Diego&#8217;s Brain Observatory in the US sliced a human brain into 2,401 ultrathin slivers.<\/p>\n<p>Now they&#8217;re mounting the slices on glass slides and staining them to reveal the organ&#8217;s neurons and connective fibres, after which they will digitally scan the slides and reassemble them into a zoomable 3D model that will illustrate the anatomy of the entire organ at a cellular level.<\/p>\n<p>In time, they&#8217;ll continue to add examples of healthy and diseased brains, which should help physicians spot differences between them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-ever 3D human brain &#8220;atlas&#8221;\u009d is on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-mag","category-medicine","category-science","category-science-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}