Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge ...

Scientists have found 50 million reasons to study the brain of a fruit fly. That's how many connections they discovered in the first complete map— known as a connectome—of an adult insect's brain.

Have you ever wondered how a fly manages to dodge you in a split second? Scientists have long been fascinated by the ...

Researchers have created an AI model that can predict some fruit fly brain signals. It was able to predict the activity of neurons in a fruit fly by looking at how those neurons were connected.

Scientists have created a virtual brain network that can predict the behavior of individual neurons in a living brain. The model is based on a fruit fly's visual system, and it offers scientists a way ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

The first full map of an adult fruit fly's brain shows 50 million connections between neurons. Researchers are using the map to learn how all... From fruit fly to this guy: a map of one tiny brain may ...