The Cost Curve of Electron Microscopy for Connectome Reconstruction
A cubic millimetre of mouse cortex, 523 million synapses, two petabytes of raw image data, and a reconstruction effort that published in 2025. The numbers describe a single experiment — and they explain why connectome-scale scanning is, for the moment, the rate-limiting step in any long-horizon preservation programme.
1 August 2026
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