Good news!
Strangely, the ICPBM has not yet published a news release about this project!
"... A new global collaboration intends to chart [the brain] in exquisite detail. On 20 September, scientists from around the world gathered at a conference here to launch the International Consortium for Primate Brain Mapping (ICPBM). “We want to know the neural architecture underlying all the brain’s functions,” says ICPBM chair Mu-ming Poo, scientific director of the Institute of Neuroscience, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The new consortium aims to analyze marmoset, macaque, and human brains to create so-called multiomic atlases, which would include all cell types; their patterns of gene expression based on RNA transcripts, or transcriptomes; and each cell’s projections across the brain. Set to run for 25 years, the effort will produce multiomic maps not just for monkeys but for developing, adult, aging, and diseased human brains from diverse populations. ...
ICPBM so far includes nine institutions from Australia, China, Germany, Hungary, India, South Korea, and Spain. Tensions with China have deterred U.S. institutions from signing on, although U.S. scientists are among the more than 100 individual participants from 25 countries. ...
China is quickly developing technologies that could speed single-cell transcriptome analysis of larger brains and the mapping of their intricate connectomes, says Poo, an éminence grise of neuroscience who has helped shape the ongoing China Brain Project, one of the largest basic research initiatives the country has ever undertaken. ..."
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