Researchers, supported by the NIH's BRAIN Initiative, have created a comprehensive map of the fruit fly brain, identifying ...
A tiny brain for immense discoveries. The fruit fly, this simple vinegar fly, holds within it the secrets of neural ...
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.
In the world of neuroscience, breakthroughs often come from unexpected places. One such source is the Drosophila melanogaster ...
An article recently posted on the Princeton University website demonstrated a major achievement by researchers who mapped ...
At the start of October, scientists completed accurately mapping the entire brain of a fruit fly, along with releasing ...
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 ...
Although a fruit fly brain is only about the size of a poppy ... a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University who helped lead the mapping effort. “There’s a lot of fundamental ...
or the map of the fruit fly’s brain. In the short term the hope is to make the process of mapping a brain more efficient, so when it comes time to step up to a more complex brain, like that of a ...
They focused on the fruit fly because we’ve mapped the entire genome ... the flies’ overall health extensively and even ...
Not only have researchers identified how a common cellular protein affects aging, but they’ve tweaked the genes that produce ...