Completing the connectome: How pursuing a map of the fly brain rewired neuroscience

September 1, 2026 · 10:00 am 3 sources

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• Completing the connectome: How pursuing a map of the fly brain rewired neuroscience
  Phys.org · September 3, 2026 15:00
  When researchers at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus set out to create a map of all the neurons in the fruit fly brain in 2008, many in the scientific community thought they were out of their minds.