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First-ever complete map of an insect's brain released
short by Hiral Goyal / on Friday, 10 March, 2023
Scientists in the UK have built the first-ever complete map of a fruit fly larva's brain. The map showing the neural connections in the insect's brain comprises 3,016 neurons and 548,000 synapses, they said. The scientists used thousands of slices of the larva's brain imaged with a high-resolution electron microscope, to reconstruct a map of the fly's brain.
read more at The Independent