The FlyWire project has successfully mapped the largest and most complex brain of an adult fruit fly, comprising 140,000 neurons and millions of synapses.
This mapping represents an extraordinary leap in neuroscience, moving from previous mappings of a worm brain with 302 neurons and a larval fruit fly brain with 3,000 neurons.
While mapping the human brain with 86 billion neurons remains a future aspiration, the work done on the fruit fly brain could lead to insights into major brain diseases.
Led by Princeton University, the FlyWire project's collaboration among 146 labs and 122 institutions underscores the collective effort required for such a monumental scientific achievement.
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