The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly.

Researchers have long said they won't be able to understand the brain until they can put together a "wiring diagram" -- a map of how billions of neurons are interconnected. Now, researchers at the ...

The human brain is composed of billions of neurons wired together in intricate webs and communicating through electrical pulses and chemical signals. Although neuroscientists have made progress in ...

Janelia scientists have traced the shape and position of more than 300 neurons in the mouse brain; in this composite reconstruction, each neuron is represented by a different color. Credit ...

The researchers were able to identify most of the 950 neurons included in the new retinal-wiring diagram based on their connections with other neurons, as well as the shape of the neuron.

In a study out this week in the journal Science, the team of researchers reconstructed a baby fruit fly’s brain, neuron by neuron, and the possible highways between those brain cells. This map ...

New technologies that allow scientists to trace the fine wiring of the brain more accurately than ever before could soon generate a complete wiring diagram–including every tiny fiber and ...

The neural map covers one-third of the fruit fly brain, making it the largest connectome, or wiring diagram, ever worked out.

Electron microscope image shows neurons in the fruit fly brain. An algorithm determines where each neuron starts and ends, and human proofreaders check the algorithm’s work.

The diagram of all 139,255 neurons in the adult fly brain is the first of an entire brain for an animal that can walk and see. Previous efforts have completed the whole brain diagrams for much smaller ...

Is there a difference in brain structure between men and women? If we were to find such a difference in a single neuron, would it matter?

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning systems has increased the demand for new hardware components that could speed up data analysis while consuming less power. As ...