Comparison of male and female fly brains is unlocking the secret workings of the mind

Comparison of male and female fly brains is unlocking the secret workings of the mind Jacqueline Garget Thu, 09/03/2026 - 16:00 An international team co-led by the University of Cambridge has mapped every neuron in the male Drosophila fly’s brain and nerve cord, to produce a wiring map of the 166,700 neurons and the millions of connections between them. Known in scientific terms as a ‘connectome’, this is allowing unprecedented insights into how the brain turns sensory input into sophisticated behaviour by allowing researchers to identify the chains of connected neurons deep into the brain. Si