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.
With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...
The first full map of an adult fruit fly’s brain shows 50 million connections between neurons. Researchers are using the map to learn how all... From fruit fly to this guy: a map of one tiny ...
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 ...
Because the fruit fly genome is thoroughly mapped and understood ... it prevented the accumulation of F-actin in the brain," said Schmid, now an investigator at the Arkansas Biosciences Institute ...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A UVM researcher is part of a team of scientists conducting a study to map out a fruit fly brain. Davi Bock, a professor of neurological sciences at UVM’s Robert Larner ...
They focused on the fruit fly because we’ve mapped the entire genome ... the flies’ overall health extensively and even ...
Buildup of a protein called filamentous actin, or F-actin, in the brain inhibits the removal of cellular wastes, including DNA, lipids, proteins and organelles. The resulting accumulation of waste ...