Neurons in brain1/22/2024 ![]() ![]() Johns Hopkins University / University of Cambridge The map of neurons in a larval fruit fly's brain. ![]() “It is a tour de force of how we understand the ways in which brains are connected,” Timothy Mosca, a neuroscientist who studies fruit fly synapses at Thomas Jefferson University and did not contribute to the research, tells Gizmodo’s Lauren Leffer. With 3,016 neurons and 548,000 connections, called synapses, the result is by far the most complex map of a whole brain ever made. ![]() Now, researchers have constructed a detailed map of the neurons and the connections between them in the brain of a larval fruit fly. But that didn’t stop scientists from trying to get a complete picture of what’s inside the tiny organ. A fruit fly larva is only a fraction of an inch long, and its brain is the size of a grain of salt. ![]()
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