• Mapping The Entire Fruit Fly Brain

  • Oct 7 2024
  • Length: 12 mins
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Mapping The Entire Fruit Fly Brain

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  • Fruit fly brains are smaller than a poppy seed, but that doesn't mean they aren't complex. For the first time, researchers have published a complete diagram of 50 million connections in an adult fruit flies brain. The journal Nature simultaneously published nine papers related to this new brain map. Until now, only a roundworm and a fruit fly larva had been mapped in this way.

    Read more of science correspondent Jon Hamilton's reporting here.

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