Musing on John Lewis-Stempel's latest book, England: A natural history, James McConnachie marks the flowering of other, more ...

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Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

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The connectome could help researchers better understand how to treat diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

By tracing every single connection between nerve cells in a single fruit fly’s brain, scientists have created the “connectome,” a tool that could help reveal how brains work.

Bionics engineers typically view biology as something to be worked around. “Anatomics” engineers the body to be part of the system.

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