The FlyBase team’s fundraising efforts have proven successful in the short term, but restoration of its federal grant remains uncertain.
By Calli McMurray
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The work with bats on barren, 7-acre Latham Island was Nachum Ulanovsky’s most complex undertaking yet.
By Claudia López Lloreda
A large study of developing brains reveals genetic and molecular differences between males and females. The findings may help explain why neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, occur at different rates in boys and girls.
By Giorgia Guglielmi
A large study of developing brains reveals genetic and molecular differences between males and females. The findings may help explain why neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, occur at different rates in boys and girls.
By Giorgia Guglielmi
Astrocytes get less attention than their neuronal neighbors, partly because they’re harder to study. But the glial cells could help explain how memories take a more stable form after recall.
By Lauren Schneider
This month’s newsletter features Anne Churchland’s piece on reproducibility and Q&As with Isabel Christie and Jacob Miller about their new labs. Plus job openings, a peer-review workshop and more. Sign up for the newsletter.
In this month’s “Liftoff,” Jacob Miller talks about how there is no one “holy” method in neuroscience, and Isabel Christie reflects on her mentor’s advice and the value of persistence.
By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
New findings solve “developmental biology’s most complicated problem”: how each olfactory neuron in the ant expresses exactly one out of hundreds of olfactory receptors.
By Viviane Callier
Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @Neurograce.
Hear from 10 experts in the field.
Results showed it was possible to “effectively rescue motor neuron function,” and George Mentis and his team think their results are coalescing into a theory, even if they don’t fully understand it yet.
By David Adam
A variant of CRISPR amps up expression of SCN2A, rescuing mice from seizures caused by haploinsufficiency.
By Charles Q. Choi
In this episode, Paul Middlebrooks talks with Nikolay Kukushkin about his new book, ‘One Hand Clapping: Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Mind.’
It took more than a decade to trace the 130,000 connections in a fruit fly's brain. With the map in hand, researchers are turning to the next step in connectomics: building simulations.
By Laura Dattaro
https://www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/connectomics-2-0-simulating-the-brain/
Bradley Dickerson on how a 1940s fly neuroanatomy paper influences his research to this day
https://www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-changed-my-life/this-paper-changed-my-life-bradley-dickerson-on-how-a-1940s-fly-neuroanatomy-paper-influences-his-research-to-this-day/
Two species of Drosophila with different odor preferences show the same number and type of cells in their olfactory circuits, but the way their interneurons connect to olfactory sensory neurons differs.
By Marta Hill
Sensory and effector neurons link up in specific body parts to produce behaviors while higher-order brain regions supervise from afar, according to a recent study mapping out the fly central nervous system.
By Claudia López Lloreda
Take a look back at our previous coverage on the FlyWire and connectome:
https://www.thetransmitter.org/
To celebrate the first anniversary of the release of FlyWire, we asked nine neuroscientists to share how they are using connectome data in their research and what they hope is in store for the future of fly connectomics.
By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
Neurons in the brain form functional connections with small-cell lung cancer cells that have spread there, fueling the growth of these brain metastases, two independent studies show.
By Sarah DeWeerdt
The awarded projects plan to study gene-and-environment interactions in people, stem cells and organoids, as well as predictors of positive life outcomes in autistic youth and adults.
By Calli McMurray
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