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 ...

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.

In total, the researchers captured 21 million images of just over 7,000 brain slices to assemble the stunning three-dimensional map of the fly's brain.

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 ...

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.

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 — ...

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.