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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Over the last 10 years, more than 600 scientists at 150 labs have collaborated toward one goal: to map the entire brain of a fruit fly all in the hope of better ...

Circadian clocks control physiological processes and behavior in virtually all living organisms. Now an international ...

This tractable but non-trivial level of complexity has made fruit flies an attractive target for those who would like to build a “connectome” of an animal brain—a three-dimensional map of ...

Researchers created a complete map of the fruit fly’s brain circadian clock, identifying 240 neurons involved in time-keeping ...

In most research labs, the scientists are on the same page about why they're pursuing a research project. But the Rubin Lab ...

Circadian clocks control physiological processes and behavior in virtually all living organisms. Now an international research team has created a detailed map of the internal clock in the brain of the ...

From oceans found on distant planets to a detailed map of a fly’s brain, these findings deepened our understanding of the ...

In early October, scientists revealed something spectacular—a complete map of a fruit fly’s brain. Roughly the size of a ...

A lifespan-extending drug called rapamycin was shown to reduce F-actin buildup in fruit fly brains as well. "But that's correlation, not a direct demonstration that F-actin is detrimental to aging of ...