The Virtual Brain of a Fly Has Taken over Social Networks
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Researchers have digitized the entire brain of a fruit fly. Now it plays computer games, dances and deals with bitcoin. The videos are clicked millions of times on the internet. What is behind this milestone?
A team of researchers has managed to reconstruct and run on a computer the entire central nervous system of an adult fruit fly. The project, named MaleCNS v1.0 and published in the magazine [...] They get to run the brain of a fly on a computer is an article by Blogthinkbig.com.
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The complete neuronal map of a Drosophila male has passed in a few days from the laboratory to Minecraft, Doom, the bitcoins trade and all kinds of impossible experiments. Behind the phenomenon there is a scientific milestone: reconstructing, neuron to neuron, his entire central nervous system.
Playing Doom, cutting kebab meat, exchanging bitcoins... These are some of the activities performed by virtual Drosophiles in small videos that have toured social networks lately. The publication of a complete 3D model of the brain of this insect has made this possible.
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