The connectome could help researchers better understand how to treat diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
When a Medfly quarantine in L.A. ended this summer, you could be forgiven for asking, "A what quarantine?" This is the tale ...
The American singer Beyonce is the inspiration behind the naming of the horse fly Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae. Because of ...
The FlyWire Consortium has created the first full map of an adult female fruit fly brain, which also creates the first ...
Scientists mapped the gut's enteric nervous system in the fruit fly in detail, and their findings shed new light on the vital ...
Scientists have created an incredibly detailed 3D brain map that you can zoom into like you're looking at Google Maps.
The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for ...
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the Texas Department of Agriculture expanded the Harlingen and ...
Fruit fly brains are smaller than a poppy seed, but that doesn't mean they aren't complex. For the first time, researchers ...
Since Homo sapiens appeared, brains have started to analyse themselves. And this week marks the publication of an important step towards the betterment of that understanding. Researchers have produced ...
One of the more common insects affecting livestock is the horse fly. Much larger than a typical house fly or stable fly, ...