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Google Research·· 2026-09-04SelectedAI score62

A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain

A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain

AI introduction

Google Research, together with HHMI Janelia, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, the University of Cambridge and others, has published in Cell a complete connectome map of the male fruit fly brain and central nervous system, containing over 166,000 neurons and 125 million synaptic connections — the largest brain map to date by neuron count.

Why it matters

The article details the connectome's scale, the AI reconstruction methods, and an open-source viewer, so readers can gauge the current limits of connectomics and the resources available.

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Source: Google Research · research.google