fruit fly

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• 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.