Her comments to Holyrood's culture committee came as she repeated calls for a slice of the television licence fee to create a digital network.

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Only one gene can be captured per slice and six per brain, meaning it took 4, 000 mice to create the Allen Brain Atlas, made available free on the Web in December 2004 and largely finished in 2006.

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