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Citizen science can be used to increase the amount of big-data projects
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Researchers have published the most complete wiring diagram of the fruit fly’s brain, which includes more than 145,000 nerve cells and over 50 million connections. “It could be used for larger connectome projects that the BRAIN Initiative is funding,” John Ngai, director of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative at US National Institutes of Health, said.
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