Fly Brain Connections Revealed

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Fly brain sheds light on human thought process

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Scientists have identified the position, shape and connections of every single one of its 130,000 cells and 50 million connections.

It's the most detailed analysis of the brain of an adult animal ever produced.

One leading brain specialist described the breakthrough as a "huge leap" in our understanding of our own brains.

A human brain is so much larger than the flyâs, and we donât yet have the technology to capture all the information about its wiring. But the researchers believe that perhaps in 30 years it may be possible to have a human connectome. The fly brain, they say, is a start of a new, deeper understanding of how our own minds work. The research has been conducted by a large international collaboration of scientists, called the FlyWire Consortium ..

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