After 20 Years, Complete Fruit Fly Connectome Maps 166,700 Neurons and 124.2M Synapses
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-04
A 20-year research project has culminated in the publication of the complete adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) nervous system connectome.
- What looks like a mere speck in a dish resolves into 166,700 nerve cells wired by 124.2 million synapses.
- The map provides a full wiring diagram of an animal's nervous system, a milestone resource for neuroscience and brain-inspired AI research.
Related event: Google and HHMI Janelia Complete Full Male Fruit Fly Brain Connectome(8 posts)→
More from Research
- 753B model 'thinks', 4B model writes: latent-space handoff claimed to be 20x faster — burny_tech · 2026-09-04
- TailSFT: Microsoft Paper Shows SFT Can Wreck RL Starting Points, Gains up to 4% pass@1 — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-09-04
- Vals AI launches SRE-Bench, a cybersecurity benchmark testing LLMs on binary reverse engineering — dyn___ · 2026-09-04
- Emergent Misalignment Is Predictable Generalization, Not a Magic "Evil Persona" — burny_tech · 2026-09-04
- RL-driven progress may hit a wall on out-of-distribution generalization, researcher argues — chris_j_paxton · 2026-09-04
- Kastor: Turning Physics Foundation Models Into Efficient Generative PDE Simulators — qberthet · 2026-09-04