Researchers have gained comprehensive insights into the entire nervous system of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). The study describes in detail the neurons that span the entire nervous system ...

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 ...

Scientists have completed the most detailed map ever made of an adult animal brain by charting every cell and connection in a ...

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, ...

Researchers in a new study zoomed in on the function of sleep using a common fruit fly to find out how animals rest yet remain alert to danger, even when sleeping. Previously, study authors explained ...

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 ...