Princeton University scientists have mapped the brain of an adult fruit fly, making major strides to better understand the ...

Researchers, supported by the NIH's BRAIN Initiative, have created a comprehensive map of the fruit fly brain, identifying ...

Neuroscientists Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute used 21 million images of an adult ...

Fruit flies are some of the most annoying pests to get rid of, especially once they've locked on to a food source in your home. And unfortunately, your living space is probably full of tasty ...

Fruit flies are some of the worst household pests that exist, made worse by the fact that they are seemingly impossible to get rid of. The flies are attracted to fruit, other foods, and garbage ...

“And now, amazingly, here it is.” The project involved electron microscopy images of more than 7,000 thin slices of a female fruit fly’s brain and machine learning that aligned the complex ...

It took almost 50 labs around the world to create a new neural map, or connectome, of an adult fruit ... by slicing a fly brain into chunks thinner than a ray of light, taking images of those ...

When Amos Abolaji returned to Nigeria from a year abroad, he brought home a strange souvenir — two jars full of fruit flies. The biochemist had been conducting postdoctoral research at the ...

Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster ... block and used a microscope to take pictures of it. Then the scientists shaved ...

FRUIT FLIES are smart ... on being able to stitch the images together into a connectome. Which they did. Besides the numbers of neurons and synapses in the fly brain, FlyWire’s researchers ...

UC Santa Barbara neuroscientists have reconstructed the entire anterior visual pathway of a fruit fly, a complex series of connections between the insect’s eyes and the navigation center of its brain.