{"id":759498,"date":"2026-09-04T08:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759498\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:12:17","slug":"see-a-map-of-the-male-fruit-fly-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759498\/","title":{"rendered":"See a map of the male fruit fly brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"ol430\">For the first time, scientists have mapped every single neural connection in the brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly. In this years-long project by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.janelia.org\/project-team\/flyem\/male-cns-connectome\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HHMI Janelia Research Campus<\/a>, Google Research, and collaborators from the scientific community, this map of the male fruit fly brain includes a record-breaking more than 166,000 neurons. It\u2019s a big step in advancing neuroscience experiments on this key model organism.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5n5bm\">AI is making it possible for scientists and researchers to exponentially scale projects in the field of connectomics, which precisely reconstruct the connections between brain cells. This new complete brain map, a first for a male fruit fly, builds on the earlier release of a complete female fruit fly brain map, and promises to be a foundational resource for neuroscience for years to come.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6dt5m\">Today, we\u2019re sharing five images from the project.<\/p>\n<p>1. A record-breaking map: charting more neurons than ever before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time, scientists have mapped every single neural connection in the brain and central nervous system&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,3085,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-759498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-none","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}