Researchers Publish First Complete Connectome of Fruit Fly Brain and ‘Spinal Cord’

In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published a complete wiring diagram of all the connections between neurons in the central nervous system of an adult fruit fly.

From Rachel Wilson, Wei-Chung Allen Lee, Jan Drugoswitsch, Mala Murthy (Princeton) and colleagues, co-first authors Alexander S. Bates, Jasper S. Phelps, Minsu Kim, and Helen H. Yang. Read more at HMS News.

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