Tag: fruit fly
Researchers are trying to figure out why sleep is important
A study on fruit flies found that when they were deprived of sleep, they started dying as soon as they reached the end of their life span. Researchers also found that a sleep-deprived fruit fly had less amyloid andtau in its brain, a protein that is known to cause Alzheimer’s Disease. The flies that slept were placed in vibrating tubes.
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Citizen science can be used to increase the amount of big-data projects
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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