After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail | Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 3 months ago

After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail | Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

m0darn@lemmy.ca · 3 months ago

That’s amazing. I’m surprised that mouse brains have only 1000 times more neurons than a fruit fly, although I suppose the difficulty of mapping it scales exponentially (factorially?)

Fuck spez@sh.itjust.works · 3 months ago

Scientists gave a simulated fly brain a simulated taste of sugar. The brain then sent out a command to extend the virtual fly’s tongue to feed, and if it sensed the sugar on the right side of the tongue, the brain received a signal to bend the tongue out toward the right.

Okay, I’m impressed.

After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail | Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail | Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

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