What we're doing is reverse-engineering the brain," says Henry Mackram , codirector of the Brain Mind Institute at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland and leader of the Blue Brain Project , which began in 2005. By mimicking the behavior of the brain down to the individual neuron, the researchers aim to create a modeling tool that can be used by neuroscientists to run experiments, test hypotheses, and analyze the effects of drugs more efficiently than they could using real brain tissue. The model of part of the brain was completed last year, says Markram. But now, after extensive testing comparing its behavior with results from biological experiments, he is satisfied that the simulation is accurate enough that the researchers can proceed with the rest of the brain."
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