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When confronted, a single neuron helps a fruit fly change course

August 22, 2018 by

In the fruit fly, a single pair of brain neurons command backward locomotion in both larvae and adults, researchers report. The methodology behind the discovery provides a way for scientists to link other direct connections between individual brain neurons and nervous system neurons.

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