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Human brains and fruit fly brains are built similarly – visualizing how helps researchers better understand how both work

  • Written by Kristin Scaplen, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Bryant University
imageStepping through the brain reveals essential information about its structure and function.Scaplen et al. 2021/eLife, CC BY

The human brain contains approximately 87 billion neurons. On average, each of these cells make thousands of different connections to facilitate communication across the brain. Neural communication is thought to underlie all...

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