PRINCETON, N.J. — For the first time, neuroscientists have just finished mapping out the entire brain of an adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). The research reveals the most complete map of a ...

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“You might be asking why we should care about the brain of a fruit fly,” Seung tells the Guardian’s Ian Sample. “My simple answer is that if we can truly understand how any brain ...

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Those maps will help answer big questions about brain connectomes — whether they’re variable among individuals, if they change over time, and whether they can help predict behaviors.

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

Previous researchers mapped the brain of a C. elegans worm, with its 302 neurons, and the brain of a larval fruit fly, which had 3,000 neurons, but the adult fruit fly is several orders of ...

Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge number of cells and cell connections. It took almost 50 labs around the world to create a new neural map, or connectome, of an adult ...

A fruit fly might not be the smartest organism, but scientists can still learn a lot from its brain. Researchers are hoping to do that now that they have a new map — the most complete for any ...

They do each of these things on the basis of sophisticated processing of sound, smell, touch and vision, organised and run by a brain composed of about 140,000 neurons—more than the 300 or so ...

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