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Take-off! Researchers map fly’s neural networ - EurekAlert


Scientists at the University of Washington and Harvard Medical School, in collaboration with the ESRF, have discovered the neural circuits that coordinate leg and wing movements in the fruit fly (Drosophila). This could lead to a better understanding of how the nervous system senses and controls the body.

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