5 amazing visuals show how the male fruit fly’s brain map is advancing neuroscience

Scientists released the first complete connectome of an adult male fruit fly, mapping over 166,000 neurons and 12,000 cell types. The dataset, built with AI‑assisted image reconstruction, is now publicly available via the Neural Mapping website, providing a new resource for neuroscience research. No tool or code integration is described.

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