Insights to come from new brain research base

With the cloning of monkeys as an important foundation to build upon, an innovation park for research into brain intelligence and brain disease has been established in Shanghai.

The G60 Brain Intelligence Innovation Park, with a budget of 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion), will be dedicated to becoming a world-class research center of brain disease models in nonhuman primates to serve medical diagnosis and treatment and a national-level development and transformation center of achievements in technologies regarding brain-inspired intelligence, Pu Muming, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Institute of Neuroscience of the CAS, said on Wednesday at the park's inauguration ceremony.

The CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, a part of the Institute of Neuroscience, established the center jointly with the district government of Songjiang, where the center is based.