Mar 12, 2023
The First-Ever Complete Map of an Insect Brain Is Truly Mesmerizing
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: mapping, neuroscience
After 12 years of work, a huge team of researchers from the UK, US, and Germany have completed the largest and most complex brain map to date, describing every neural connection in the brain of a larval fruit fly.
Though nowhere near the size and complexity of a human brain, it still covers a respectable 548,000 connections between a total of 3,016 neurons.
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