An unsigned reader writes "U.S. scientists on Tuesday unveiled the world's first computerized human brain map, an online public wealth big to accelerate sagacious of how the human brain works and in hopes to tackle neurological diseases like Alzeimer's and Parkinson's. Funded by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, the 55-million-U.S. dollar project, named the Allen Human Brain Atlas, identifies 1,000 anatomical sites in the human brain, backed by more than 100 million data points that attest the disjoin gene utterance and underlying biochemistry of each site, said the Seattle-based Allen clambake for Brain Science. The human brain map released so far is only male."

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