San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.… We'd call this "huge ...

How the brain gets wired up matters. Consider the neurons involved in the sense of smell. Hook them up wrong, and suddenly turpentine might smell like a lovely chianti. Yet how our developing brains ...

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A Johns Hopkins University mathematician and computer scientist joined an international team of neuroscientists to create a complete map of the learning and memory center of the fruit fly larva brain, ...

New work in fruit flies uncovers an electrical trick that allows neurons to compute direction efficiently by juggling multiple signaling mechanisms. These findings could reframe our understanding of ...

On the other hand, Ann-Shyn Chiang has argued that there may be specific patterns of connectivity within the fruit fly’s brain. Chiang, a renowned neuroscientist and Academician of Academia Sinica, ...

The fruit fly brain was an obvious place to start. Scientists had already found all of its neurons and knew a lot about the animal's behavior. Then in 2018 scientists at the Janelia Research Campus ...