San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.… We'd call this "huge ...

For more than a century, the fruit fly has been a workhorse of the biological sciences that has helped scientists to make ...

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New work in fruit flies uncovers an electrical trick that allows neurons to compute direction efficiently by juggling multiple signaling mechanisms. These findings could reframe our understanding of ...

The fruit fly brain was an obvious place to start. Scientists had already found all of its neurons and knew a lot about the animal's behavior. Then in 2018 scientists at the Janelia Research Campus ...