🔥 Today, researchers unveiled the connectome of the male adult fruit fly nerve cord.
🧠 With about 23K neurons, 10 million pre-synaptic sites & 74 million post-synaptic densities, it’s the most in-depth & complete wiring diagram of a fly nerve cord.
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The new #OpenScience Software Initiative will help @HHMIJanelia scientists develop and maintain software for biological research. In many cases, these custom, one-of-a-kind computer programs are used by hundreds of biology labs worldwide.
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