Based on electron microscope images of thin slices of a drosophila brain, the three-dimensional structure of this tiny brain is reconstructed to not only determine the location of each neuron, ...

The brain was sliced into unbelievably thin layers and imaged via EM, and the resulting slices were carefully examined to tell how neurons and axons and other cellular structures continued between ...

Two high-speed electron microscopes. 7,062 brain slices. 21 million images. ... Fruit flies, or Drosophila melanogaster, may be best known for buzzing around ripe bananas.

A new map of the full Drosophila brain reveals the 50 largest neurons. These behemoths and their thin cellular projections are each a different color. ... tracing cells through different slices.

Based on the Drosophila connectome, Rubin estimates that “you could do a 1,000-fold bigger project” such as a mouse connectome “with only 10 times the money in 10 years” — roughly $500 ...

So, studying it can yield a “fundamental” understanding of cell functionality that can be extrapolated to the human brain. The Drosophila connectome is like “Google Maps” for the fly brain, ... After ...

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.

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 brain has a limited capacity to self-protect against protein aggregate-associated pathology, and mounting evidence supports a role for phagocytic glia in this process. We have established a ...

“The fruit fly brain contains ‘only’ around 220,000 cells, a scale for which it has now become feasible to investigate the full diversity of all cell types,” added Aerts. DNA code of ...

Researchers have known for a long time that innate and learned behaviors occur in separate brain areas. Each one is stimulated by a sensation, like a smell or a picture, but the way innate and ...