Complete Fruit Fly Brain Map Unveils 139k Neurons

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Brain Map

Navigating insect minds has never been easier. Scientists mapped the entire brain of a female fruit fly in a potential Nobel Prize winning study.

• Most detailed mapping for an adult animal

• 139k+ neurons and 50 million connections

• Manual and AI review discovered 4,500 new neuron types

Though our noggins have 80 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections, we can still learn from shared actions, like walking. And seeing the banana I left on the counter.

Looks like a giant bag of Skittles

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