clipped from: technutnews.com 
A detailed simulation of a small region of a brain built molecule by molecule has been constructed and has recreated experimental results from real brains.
The “Blue Brain” has been put in a virtual body, and observing it gives the first indications of the molecular and neural basis of thought and memory.
Scaling the simulation to the human brain is only a matter of money, says the project’s head.
The work was presented at the European Future Technologies meeting in Prague.
The Blue Brain project launched in 2005 as the most ambitious brain simulation effort ever undertaken.