3D image reveals hidden neurons in fruit-fly brain

Jul 20, 2018

3D image reveals hidden neurons in fruit-fly brain

Researchers hope the data will speed the understanding of how the brain affects behaviour.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05782-x

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Researchers cut a fly’s brain — roughly the size of a poppy seed — into more than 7,000 slices and shot a beam of electrons through the sample. A high-speed camera captured high-resolution pictures of each slice — a process never used before — generating roughly 21 million images that the team stitched together using custom computer software.

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