![]() Even in the most well-studied parts of the fly brain, he says, there’s still a lot more for scientists to see.Ĭardona and colleagues, and Janelia’s FlyEM Project external link, opens in a new tab team and collaborators, recently published two separate studies: one in Nature on August 10, 2017, the other in eLife on July 18, 2017, detailing the newly discovered neural connections and how they might relate to behavior. The results underscore the need for deeply detailed brain mapping, and make a case for using high-resolution electron microscopy (EM) to do it, says Albert Cardona external link, opens in a new tab, a group leader and neurobiologist at Janelia. Their findings have added some unexpected neural connections, or synapses external link, opens in a new tab, to a seemingly solved circuit. Two teams of scientists at the Janelia Research Campus have independently mapped a brain region critical for memory and learning in the fruit fly external link, opens in a new tab, Drosophila melanogaster, in the larval and adult life stages. ![]() What was once thought to be a done-and-dusted map of the fruit fly brain has gotten a second look, and researchers have discovered that it’s actually not done at all. ![]()
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