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Auditory neurons of a fruity fly
The auditory neurons of a fruit fly. A team of researchers and citizen scientists has made a massive step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron, synapse-by-synapse roadmap -- a "connectome" -- through the brain of an adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster).
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants DBI 2014862 and PHY 1734030.]
Learn more in the NSF Discovery Files story Creating the largest, most comprehensive picture of neural connections to date. (Date of image: 2024; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Oct. 18, 2024)
Credit: Tyler Sloan and Amy Sterling for FlyWire
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