Researchers publish first complete connectome of fruit fly brain and 'spinal cord'

In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published ...
STAT

A ‘landmark’ achievement: Scientists trace full wiring diagram of the fly brain’s core

Particle physicists are used to popping champagne corks when they make discoveries at lilliputian scales, but now it’s neuroscientists’ turn. After 12 years and more than $40 million, an eclectic team ...
Martin Cid Magazine

Scientists mapped a fruit fly’s 160,000 neurons — and its legs run themselves

An international team has published the first complete brain-to-body connectome of an adult animal. The 160,000-neuron map of ...
Nature

A complete wiring diagram of the fruit-fly brain

Neuroscientists have reconstructed the first complete wiring map of the fruit-fly brain, including 140,000 neurons and more than 50 million connections. This resource has already begun to ...
EurekAlert!

Fly Brain Diagram (IMAGE)

Princeton University researchers used fruit fly brains to capture the process by which the brain identifies behaviorally useful information in the external environment and uses it to determine our ...