Scientists Map Fruit Fly Brain to Learn Its Functions — VOA Learning English
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A group of international scientists recently announced they had made a map of the whole “brain” of an adult fruit fly.
They said the milestone would provide new knowledge about the brains of all animals including humans.
The research gives details of more than 50 million connections between 139,000 neurons, which are nerve cells in the brain of the fruit fly.
The scientific name of the animal is Drosophila melanogaster. It is often used in scientific experiments, especially studies of nerve cells.
The researchers wanted to find out exactly how the brain cells operate when they are healthy and normal.
Sebastian Seung was one of the leaders of the research, which was published as a series of…
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