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by anonmeow 3909 days ago
Small volume of mouse cortex is already successfully scanned at 3x3x20nm voxel resolution, with smallest synaptic details being visible http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(15)00824-7 The tool is called ATLUM. The process could be scaled up.
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Yeah, it's fundamentally not "this is impossible" but "this is very hard and expensive", and very hard and expensive tasks have a remarkable way of becoming cheaper and easier over the long term.