Researchers map the whole brain of Drosophila melanogaster, or the fruit fly, which comprises about 140,000 neurons and over ...

Two species of wood-decaying fungi can be used as protectors in the complex therapy of oncology (to reduce the effects of ...

Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

Scientists have made an enormous step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap -- scientifically speaking, a 'connectome' -- through the brain ...

Ever wish you could stop that fruit fly on your kitchen counter in its tracks? Scientists at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have created flies that halt under red light. In doing so, ...

A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature.

John M. Clark, emeritus professor in the Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, has been elected as an ACS Fellow of the ...

Brains are bewilderingly complicated systems of connections between neurons. Mapping those connections is an important step ...

A Princeton-led team of scientists has built the first neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap through the brain of an adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), marking a major milestone in ...

Seung and Murthy say that they’ve been developing the FlyWire map for more than four years, using electron microscopy images ...

African researchers are using Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies to advance studies of genetics, biomedicine, developmental biology, toxicology and more.