Stores of glucose in the brain could play a much more significant role in the pathological degeneration of neurons than ...

New research reveals that sugar metabolism in brain cells may be a crucial defense against Alzheimer’s and related dementias.

FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter ...

AI is learning to think like us, bridging the worlds of biology and technology. This breakthrough could redefine intelligence ...

Drosophila research: first ridiculed, then admiredThomas Hunt Morgan has now been studying flies in his "fly laboratory" at Columbia University for two years. Day after day, the trained geneticist ...

Abstract Synaptic connectome of the Drosophila circadian clock The circadian clock and its output pathways play a pivotal role in optimizing daily processes. To obtain insights into how diverse ...

The manuscript presents an ambitious and comprehensive synaptic connectome of neurosecretory cells (NSC) in the Drosophila brain, which highlights the neural circuits underlying hormonal regulation of ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and published in a series of papers written by scientists worldwide, including ...

“A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing” by Philip K. Shiu, Gabriella R. Sterne, Nico Spiller, Romain Franconville, Andrea Sandoval, Joie Zhou, Neha Simha, Chan Hyuk ...

Why is the fruit fly used to study the human brain? The fruit fly, a tiny vinegar fly, is a highly prized model organism in neuroscience. Despite its brain's small size, it shares about 60% of its ...

The Drosophila brain contains almost 140,000 neurons and over 15 million synaptic connections. Unlike previously mapped model organisms, the adult fly is capable of complex behaviours, including ...

, including Davi Bock, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurological Sciences at UVM’s Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine, recently made a substantial advancement in neurobiological research by ...