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 fruit fly, this simple vinegar fly, holds within it the secrets of neural connections. Could understanding its brain pave the way for insights into human diseases? With 140,000 neurons mapped, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
not a direct demonstration that F-actin is detrimental to aging of the brain … To get at causality, we turned to genetics.” The fruit fly genome has been thoroughly mapped, and the ...