Full Connectome of Fruit Fly Brain Revealed

Hundreds of scientists and citizen scientists from around the world have mapped out more than 50 million connections in the tiny fruit fly brain, a step toward one day producing an intricate ...
A tiny brain for immense discoveries. The fruit fly, this simple vinegar fly, holds within it the secrets of neural ...
Mapping these connections is the first step. With over 140,000 neurons and 54 million synapses—the connections between nerve cells—packed into such a tiny space, the fruit fly’s brain, however ...
The consortium used electron microscopic brain images generated previously in Bock's lab to create a detailed map of connections between neurons in the entire adult brain of a female fruit ...
A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature. Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million connections ...
So Fly: Scientists Complete Map of Adult Fruit Fly Brain By Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The head of a Princeton team that mapped the ...
An international collaboration of scientists has mapped the brain of a fruit fly in a milestone research project announced on Thursday. The research sought to decipher how brains are wired and ...
Scientists have found 50 million reasons to study the brain of a fruit fly. That’s how many connections they discovered in the first complete map— known as a connectome—of an adult insect ...