That supercomputer is the center-piece of the Blue Brain Project, tasked with simulating every aspect of the workings of a living brain. Markram, the 49-year-old founder and codirector of the Brain ...

The Blue Brain Project is one of six proposals selected by the European Commission to compete for two huge flagship projects that will apply information and communication technologies to social ...

Scientists at EPFL’s Blue Brain Project, together with collaborators and contributors all over the world have developed the largest and most detailed computational models of rat hippocampal ...

A new open-source model of brain metabolism—the most complex ever generated—has shown how altering key chemicals could restore aged cells to their youthful activity and resilience.

The internet is abuzz with tributes to a liquid chemical called methylene blue that is being sold as a health supplement. Over the past five or 10 years, methylene blue has come to be touted ...

Scientists at the EPFL Blue Brain Project introduce an open-source workflow that simplifies the creation, validation and generalization of detailed neuronal models. Using this solution ...

The paper, published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, comes from the lab of Henry Markram, one of the world's most powerful neuroscientists. As well as being head of the Blue Brain Project ...

The most ambitious brain-related endeavors today, like EPFL’s Blue Brain Project — aimed at reverse-engineering the human brain down to the last molecule — focus on innovating through ...