Serial section electron microscopy volume revealing the Drosophila brain structure. Image Credits: Michael Winding. The result is the model you see, looking like a slug wearing a clown wig ...

Circadian clocks control physiological processes and behavior in virtually all living organisms. Now an international research team led by researchers from the University of Würzburg has created a ...

Drosophila brain with presenilin deficits and rescued brain (IMAGE) ... Top: A fly with deficits in the presenilin gene—a model for Alzheimer’s disease—with high levels of cell death.

This complete connectome — a diagram mapping every connection between neurons in a brain — for Drosophila, otherwise known as fruit flies, ... 0.0005 times the width of a human hair — researchers ...

Characterization of intracellular synapse heterogeneity aides to understand the intricate computational logic of neuronal circuits. Despite recent advances in connectomics, the spatial patterns of ...

Together, the team has now used this brain connectome to find all the neurons that make up the circadian clock of a fly. The result: "The circadian clock in the Drosophila brain consists of at ...

To really understand the human brain, scientists say you'd have to map its wiring. The only problem: there are more than 100 trillion different connections to find, trace and characterize. But a ...

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

About the study. To assess the effect of the drugs on behavior, starved, male, wild-type Drosophila flies were treated with optimized doses of ATX (1.5 mg/ml, n = 24), MPH (0.25 mg/ml, n = 24), or ...

Brain Insulin Resistance and Microglial Dysfunction Link Obesity with Neurodegenerative Disorders. November 7, 2023. ... “Here, using a Drosophila in vivo model, ...

F OTUD6 is uniformly distributed in the Drosophila brain. Left: OTUD6.FLAG.HA detected with anti-HA (green ... "He asked us to use the awesome power of the fly model to discover its function, ...