Virtual fruit fly brains play doom trade bitcoin
alt text
Dek for a Scientific American article, "Virtual fruit fly brains can play Doom and trade bitcoin: Reseearchers created a new map of the fruit fly brain. Then the Internet found it." with a small illustration of the new fruit fly connectome.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article...
'“It’s certainly an unexpected application of producing a connectome, but it’s fun, and it puts a spotlight on the research and allows the general public to get an entry into an otherwise complicated and difficult topic,” says Gerald M. Rubin, head of biology at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus in Virginia and one of the researchers behind the dataset.'
'“It’s certainly an unexpected application of producing a connectome, but it’s fun, and it puts a spotlight on the research and allows the general public to get an entry into an otherwise complicated and difficult topic,” says Gerald M. Rubin, head of biology at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus in Virginia and one of the researchers behind the dataset.'
- 186 Views
- 0 Saves
- 10 Likes
Post URL
https://mltshp.com/p/1RYUE
well, we need to celebrate that. sorta