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Over the next 10 years the mystery of the neurome will unravel. We will eventually have a detailed picture of the entire central nervous system and how variations in that system directly affect human health.

— U.Va. engineering professor Scott Acton, one of a team of international researchers working to map the tens of millions of neurons that make up the central nervous system

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