Likening it to a roadmap that traces every tiny alley as well as every superhighway, he said the new map -- called a "connectome" -- shows connections in the fruit fly brain at every scale.

Scientists have found 50 million reasons to study the brain of a fruit fly. That's how many connections they discovered in the first complete map— known as a connectome—of an adult insect's brain.

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A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature. Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million connections inside ...