fruit fly

The current project, FlyWire, is an ambitious effort to map neuronal connections in the entire brain of a fruit fly.

Janelia’s Gerry Rubin told Stat he and his team have overseen a 1,000-fold increase in mapping speed since they began work on the fruit fly connectome in 2008.

Last year, Google and the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute made headlines when they similarly mapped a portion of a fruit fly brain.

If molecular mechanisms behind sleep could be uncovered — if a well-understood model organism like the fruit fly could be used to study them — then there was the potential for a revolution in sleep science as well.

They were part of two independent groups that had begun to look closely at the quiescence of fruit flies.

Andrew still plans to fly to Davos in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum on January 21, representing the British government.

After some animated debate at the conference, Lelaie declared, with some frustration, “If you push on the stick, you will fly.”

Thus it attracted a wave of cowboy operators to fly passengers and cargo between cities.

Many of these are small operations that would never, in any case, fly beyond Indonesia.

Air traffic controllers and pilots together take great care not to fly in conditions that can jeopardize an airplane.

Aristide darted off like a dragon-fly in the sunshine, as happy as a child with a new toy.

Fruit-trees are clearly too scarce, though Cherries in abundance were offered for sale as we passed.

In the community her father was the wealthiest man, having made his fortune in the growing of potatoes and fruit.

The natives of Guiana use a tube or pipe not unlike a cheroot, made from the rind of the fruit of a species of palm.

“Confound it, no;” rejoined Mr. Simmery, stopping for an instant to smash a fly with the ruler.