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This is a very clickbaity title. Over 6 years ago I worked as a student on reconstruction of 50 micron human brain (part, occipital lobe) MRI images, also captured in 9.4T. Obviously a 10x higher resolution is still impressive, but it’s a mouse brain, and it’s certainly nowhere close to 64M times the resolution of comparable prior work…

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Co-author here. Recommend reading the paper itself. The resolution comparison is to clinical MRI, not previous state of the art. Improvement compared to previous state of the art is substantial in terms of both resolution AND throughput. This work is a genuine game-changer for our neurogenetics team. We can generate 100s of very high resolution MRI dataset and get great global estimates of volumes and connectivity. We are using these methods in combination with “humanized” Alzheimer’s disease mice.

Can it tell if a salmon is dead?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe...

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