New Hampshire Union Leader
Scientists map fruit fly brain in neurobiological milestone
Scientists announced on Thursday a milestone in neurobiological research with the mapping of the entire brain of an adult fruit fly, a feat that may provide insight into brains across the animal ...
Singularity Hub
Groundbreaking Brain Map Reveals Fruit Fly Brain in Stunning Detail
With a brain the size of a sesame seed, the lowly fruit fly is often considered a kitchen pest. But to neuroscientists, the flies are a treasure trove of information detailing how the brain’s ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat
A neural breakthrough: Inside the complete map of the fruit fly brain
In a groundbreaking achievement, Princeton University scientists have fully mapped the brain of an adult fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, unlocking new insights into how brains work. The feat marks ...
NPR
Fruit flies are hard to swat. Mapping their brain might tell us why
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 ...
Times Argus
Scientists successfully map fruit fly brain
BURLINGTON — At the start of October, scientists completed accurately mapping the entire brain of a fruit fly, along with releasing stunning, multi-colored graphics of its neural networks. This leap ...
KHQ
So Fly: Scientists Complete Map of Adult Fruit Fly Brain
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The Economist
A map of a fruit fly’s brain could help us understand our own
FOR BILLIONS of years, life was single-celled and boring. Even when it became multicellular and more interesting, it took the evolution of brains, and subsequent competition between them via the ...
Hackaday
Mapping A Fruit Fly’s Brain With Crowdsourced Research
This work also includes identifying cell types, with over 8,000 different cell types identified. Within the full connectome subcircuits were identified, as part of an effort to create an ‘effectome’, ...
PBS
Major advance as Princeton researchers map fruit fly's brain
The research could lead to long-term developments in science and human health Princeton University researchers have used artificial intelligence and old-fashioned hard work to map out the brain ...
Labroots
A Detailed Map of Cells & Synapses in the Fruit Fly Brain
Fruit flies are excellent research models, in part because it is so easy and inexpensive to raise them, and also because they are so well characterized. The DNA of these insects is estimated to be ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org
Fruit flies are hard to swat. Mapping their brain might tell us why
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... Fruit flies are hard to swat. Mapping their brain might ...