The article sometimes makes it sound like this is a diagnostic tool but am I wrong in thinking it's a reference constructed from a small number of individuals?
my understanding is that they took 3 specimens, aged 25 gestational weeks, 9 and 54 years old.. did “800 serial histological sections” and manually tagged them. But you can check out the information yourself here: https://anchor.humanbrain.in/
I believe this is how most publicly funded research and some private research institutes work.
This research was conducted by a public Indian university (IIT Madras). Which, by the way is literally more selective than IVY league universities
Doesnt matter how selective they are if the Budget of 1 MIT is $5 Billion while the budget of all 23 IIT is less than $1 Billion. There is a reason why so many Indian scientists move out of India.
This particular lab happens to be primarily privately funded, donations, grants, etc,. Most big ticket research at IITM like this one are industry-funded or donation-funded. The public funds cover all the usual stuff and I don't mean to understate it.
https://iitm.humanbrain.in/project.html
notably:
https://brainportal.humanbrain.in/publicview/index.html
fuck yes. finally someone not gatekeeping lifesaving technologies so they can make shit ton of money out of it.