By digitally mapping the whole brain of a fruit fly, scientists hope to gain insight into human brain disorders

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/10/02/researchers-simulate-an-entire-fly-brain-on-a-laptop-is-a-human-brain-next/

3 Comments

  1. FaultElectrical4075 on

    I’m skeptical that this will work. Maybe for some disorders, but a lot of disorders are categorized based on behaviors, which don’t necessarily map 1:1 with brain structure. Super interesting though.

  2. Iwontbereplying on

    Considering the fruit fly has 139,255 neurons and the human brain has 86 billion neurons, I don’t think this will be scaling up anytime soon