Peer inside a heavy-metal fruit fly brain
(VISUALIZATION BY PHILIPP SCHLEGEL. DROSOPHILA CONNECTOMICS GROUP)
Here’s a high-resolution picture of a fly brain to kick off your Friday. Researchers captured the snapshot — published in Cell — with the help of high-speed electron microscopes. The scientists infused heavy metals that seep into neuron membranes and synapses in adult fruit fly brains. Then, they hit sections of the brain with an electron beam — which passed through everything but the spots lined with heavy metals — and snapped pictures using custom microscopy systems. More than 20 research groups are now using the data produced to scour the secrets of the fly brain.
A Complete Electron Microscopy Volume of the Brain of Adult Drosophila melanogaster
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8Present address: Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
9Present address: Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA
10Present address: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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Published Online: July 19, 2018
Publication stage: In Press Corrected Proof
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