Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Certainly a first...

for the web: a live streaming video - for about the next 50 hours - of the dissection of a human brain into extraordinarily thin slices (using a Microtome) for research purposes at The Brain Observatory.

At the time of this post they were slicing the frontal lobe. Interesting and bizarre.

WARNING: Although the brain is encapsulated in ice for the slicing, it is nonetheless rather graphic. Not for the squeamish!

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