<p>Albert Einstein's brain, that revolutionised physics, can now be downloaded as an iPad app for USD 9.99.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The exclusive application, which has been just launched, promises to make detailed images of Einstein's brain more accessible to scientists than ever before.<br /><br />The funding to scan and digitise nearly 350 fragile and priceless slides made from slices of Einstein's brain after his death in 1955 were given to a medical museum under development in Chicago, website 'Independent.ie' reported.<br /><br />The application will allow researchers and novices to peer into the eccentric Nobel winner's brain as if they were looking through a microscope.<br /><br />"I can't wait to find out what they'll discover," Steve Landers, a consultant for the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago, who designed the app, was quoted as saying by 'Press Association'.<br /><br />"I'd like to think Einstein would have been excited," Landers said.<br />After Einstein's death, a pathologist named Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy, removing the scientist's brain, hoping that future researchers could discover the secrets behind his genius.<br /><br />The new application will allow researchers to dig even deeper by looking for brain regions where the neurons are more densely connected than normal, said Dr Phillip Epstein, a Chicago-area neuroscientist and consultant for the museum.<br /><br />However, as the tissue was preserved before modern imaging technology, it may be difficult to figure out exactly where in Einstein's brain each slide originated.<br /><br />The new app organises the slides into general brain regions, however, it does not map them with precision to an anatomical model.</p>
<p>Albert Einstein's brain, that revolutionised physics, can now be downloaded as an iPad app for USD 9.99.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The exclusive application, which has been just launched, promises to make detailed images of Einstein's brain more accessible to scientists than ever before.<br /><br />The funding to scan and digitise nearly 350 fragile and priceless slides made from slices of Einstein's brain after his death in 1955 were given to a medical museum under development in Chicago, website 'Independent.ie' reported.<br /><br />The application will allow researchers and novices to peer into the eccentric Nobel winner's brain as if they were looking through a microscope.<br /><br />"I can't wait to find out what they'll discover," Steve Landers, a consultant for the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago, who designed the app, was quoted as saying by 'Press Association'.<br /><br />"I'd like to think Einstein would have been excited," Landers said.<br />After Einstein's death, a pathologist named Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy, removing the scientist's brain, hoping that future researchers could discover the secrets behind his genius.<br /><br />The new application will allow researchers to dig even deeper by looking for brain regions where the neurons are more densely connected than normal, said Dr Phillip Epstein, a Chicago-area neuroscientist and consultant for the museum.<br /><br />However, as the tissue was preserved before modern imaging technology, it may be difficult to figure out exactly where in Einstein's brain each slide originated.<br /><br />The new app organises the slides into general brain regions, however, it does not map them with precision to an anatomical model.</p>
