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We Mapped a Fly’s BRAIN

A global team of 287 researchers have combined over 100 terabytes of data to create a full map of a fruit fly’s brain, which includes 139,255 individual neurons and 50 million connections. Popular Science, “Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain for the first time”: #science #sciencefacts #weirdscience #biology #research

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October 23, 2024

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A global team of 287 researchers have combined over 100 terabytes of data to create a full map of a fruit fly’s brain, which includes 139,255 individual neurons and 50 million connections.

Popular Science, “Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain for the first time”:

#science #sciencefacts #weirdscience #biology #research

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@TomasIsobelel

October 23, 2024 at 4:59 pm

Quando ti rendi conto che i gatti possono fare qualsiasi cosa e sembrare più fighi di te👄

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@greattomato

October 23, 2024 at 5:04 pm

Duuude that’s huge

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- @Guus
  
  October 24, 2024 at 5:33 am
  
  Um actually, an adult Drosophila melanogaster is only about 3 mm in length
  
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- @yasirrakhurrafat1142
  
  October 24, 2024 at 11:41 am
  
  @@Guus ohh suht up! 2mm is way more than average!
  
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@crashn2me105

October 23, 2024 at 5:22 pm

You actually mapped Kamala Harris brain? Wow it is small and unable to tell the truth or stop cackling

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@XXX-XX-X-X

October 23, 2024 at 6:29 pm

Sure I’d take a look. Wouldn’t understand it, but I’d look.

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@inconsolablekiwi

October 23, 2024 at 8:45 pm

Awesome!

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@Timmel7

October 24, 2024 at 2:40 am

Warum ist die Audiospur auf Deutsch?

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@Guus

October 24, 2024 at 5:31 am

Sooo. Does that mean we can 3d print a fly soon?

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- @777arksMa77_RGM
  
  October 24, 2024 at 12:46 pm
  
  It’s just the first core branch, without mapping we can’t advance this tech
  
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- @RafaelHA2010
  
  October 24, 2024 at 1:49 pm
  
  😂😂…. no.
  
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- @stas1eq20
  
  October 25, 2024 at 2:59 am
  
  Not a living one
  
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- @Axivele1
  
  October 25, 2024 at 5:54 am
  
  Flying killer bio drone
  
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- @DARDYSKUXXFELLa
  
  October 25, 2024 at 11:22 am
  
  Imagine one day technology advances far enough we can control a 3D printed fly with a VR set and play fly simulator interacting with real flies and shit, damn that would be dope.
  
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@marchess923

October 24, 2024 at 6:23 pm

Fascinating. If you believe in an afterlife, & your brain has rotted, what does science teach you about the ability to think?

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- @stas1eq20
  
  October 25, 2024 at 3:01 am
  
  Science is constantly researching our brain abilities but researches have found and proved that our brain shows our whole life in something like a short film for us, just before we die and it shuts off. Biology is truly fascinating
  
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@royenator

October 25, 2024 at 5:05 am

fly ❌
Drosophila Melanogaster ✅

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- @IIIlll13IIIllII
  
  October 25, 2024 at 7:51 am
  
  😂😂😂
  
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@royenatorBNK

October 25, 2024 at 5:05 am

fly ❌
Drosophila Melanogaster ✅

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@flameguy3416

October 25, 2024 at 5:50 am

I hear this guys voice everywhere

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@kovacsattila8993

October 25, 2024 at 6:26 am

all just for that i can run fly.exe on my pc…

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@nayon496

October 25, 2024 at 10:13 am

Pretty sure if I were to get a 3d map of my neural network, it would come out blank.

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@lts_Bubba

October 28, 2024 at 12:11 am

It has 139,000 more neurons than Donald Trumps left and right brain put together

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@vivian0001

November 18, 2024 at 6:52 pm

So they are more intelligent than many politicians.

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@FusionDeveloper

December 2, 2024 at 10:01 am

They showed a green bottle fly when they said “a fruit fly” 😢

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THE MAN WITH A SHATTERED WORLD: THE HISTORY OF A BRAIN WOUND by A. R. Luria; Translated from the Russian by Lynn Solotaroff; with a Foreword by Oliver Sacks, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1972 by Michael Cole. Foreword copyright © 1987 by Oliver Sacks.

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