Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, says he has already simulated elements of a rat brain.

The project was intended to start conversations on brain health, said Baycrest CEO Josh Cooper. “Everyone knows about heart health, but no one was talking about brain health,” he said.

Over the past five or 10 years, methylene blue has come to be touted online as a so-called nootropic agent – a substance that enhances cognitive function. Vendors claim that it amps up brain ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has deployed an HPE SGI 8600 high performance computing system at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). The machine is being used for the Blue Brain Project, an ...

In 2018, EPFL’s Blue Brain Project presented the first model of a cell atlas which provided an estimate of the composition of the mouse brain. The release of Blue Brain’s Cell Atlas (BBCAv1) marked ...

EPFL’s Blue Brain Project has announced the release of its open source software project ‘Blue Brain Nexus’, designed to enable the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data ...