After a decade, Scientists Unveiled the Fly’s Brain in Stunning Detail

?After a decade, Scientists Unveiled the Fly’s Brain in Stunning Detail Scientists have mapped the connections of 140,000 neurons in the brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The fruit fly’s brain is smaller than a poppy seed, but in this tiny space it has enormous complexity. More than 140,000 neurons are wired together by more than 490 feet of wires, the length of four blue whales, spaced closely together. Hundreds of scientists have described these connections in stunning detail in a series of papers published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The electrical circuitry will be a boon to researchers who have been studying the nervous system of the fly species Drosophila melanogaster for generations. #Drosophila #fly’sbrain #scientists Source: Global News (EU, USA)