If we can model a fly brain, and run that fly in a sim, we might do it with us. We live in the age of the brain, and ...

A complete fruit fly brain map shows how reflexes, brain signals, muscles, and organs work together to control movement.

In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published ...

A complete fruit fly brain now controls a virtual body, walking and grooming exactly like its biological counterpart. Eon Systems announced this breakthrough on March 7, 2026, marking the first time ...

To move around in their surroundings in meaningful and goal-directed ways, a skill known as navigation, humans and animals rely on a series of complex cognitive (i.e., mental) processes. Navigation is ...

Researchers have gained comprehensive insights into the entire nervous system of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). The study describes in detail the neurons that span the entire nervous system ...

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The ...

One of the world's leading brain research labs is switching from fruit flies to a tiny, transparent fish. The goal is to observe an entire animal's brain at work.

The same neuron can tell fruit flies to walk toward the smell of rotting fruit and speed up, according to new research from Yale scientists. Neurobiologists once believed that each neuron held a ...