For Drosophila, an international research consortium has recently published a map of all connections between all neurons in the fly brain—the so-called connectome.

A new way of generating brain cells has been uncovered in Drosophila. This novel mode of neurogenesis is very similar to that seen in mammalian brains, suggesting that key aspects of neural ...

The most recent bite, from a team led by Cambridge University biologists, is a “synapse-by-synapse map” of a larval drosophila brain. With 3,016 neurons and 548,000 synapses, ...

Researchers map the whole brain of Drosophila melanogaster, or the fruit fly, which comprises about 140,000 neurons and over 50 million synapses. Skip to content. Menu.

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 ...

“FlyWire,” a Princeton-led team of scientists and citizen scientists, has now made a massive step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap — ...

Together, the team has now used this brain connectome to find all the neurons that make up the circadian clock of a fly. The result: "The circadian clock in the Drosophila brain consists of at ...

In this fruit fly brain, there are precisely two neurons called CT1 neurons that span the width of the eye. Each of these neurons makes over 140,000 synapses and uses its unique position to help ...

To really understand the human brain, scientists say you'd have to map its wiring. The only problem: there are more than 100 trillion different connections to find, trace and characterize. But a ...

As many people spent the summer trying to keep the flies away from their fruit-bowls, an international group of scientists published one of the biggest and most important datasets in the field of ...

More information: Neural circuit mechanisms underlying context-specific halting in Drosophila, Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07854-7 Provided by Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience ...

Scientists peered inside the Drosophila brain to see what happens when they see one of their own corpses. By Sara Kiley Watson. Published Jun 13, 2023 2:00 PM EDT.