It's an incredible achievement.
The bug brain belongs to a fruit fly larva, and contains exactly 3,016 neurons and 548,000 synapses.
"There's regions that correspond to decision making, there's regions that correspond to learning, there's regions that correspond to navigation," study co-author Joshua Vogelsteinm, a biomedical engineer at John Hopkins University,To produce the connectome, the researchers used the brain of a female fruit fly larva that was barely six hours old.
"The brain is the physical object that makes us who we are," Vogelstein said. "And to fully understand that object, he says, you need to know how it's wired."
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