{"id":159993,"date":"2023-03-10T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/first-complete-map-of-an-insect-brain-everything-has-been-working-up-to-this"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:22:54","slug":"first-complete-map-of-an-insect-brain-everything-has-been-working-up-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/first-complete-map-of-an-insect-brain-everything-has-been-working-up-to-this","title":{"rendered":"First Complete Map of an Insect Brain \u2014 \u201cEverything Has Been Working Up to This\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-complete-map-of-an-insect-brain-everything-has-been-working-up-to-this.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have completed the most advanced brain map to date, that of an insect, a landmark achievement in neuroscience that brings scientists closer to true understanding of the mechanism of thought.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s been 50 years and this is the first brain connectome. It\u2019s a flag in the sand that we can do this.\u201d \u2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The international team led by Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cambridge produced a breathtakingly detailed diagram tracing every neural connection in the brain of a larval fruit fly, an archetypal scientific model with brains comparable to humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have completed the most advanced brain map to date, that of an insect, a landmark achievement in neuroscience that brings scientists closer to true understanding of the mechanism of thought. \u201cIt\u2019s been 50 years and this is the first brain connectome. It\u2019s a flag in the sand that we can do this.\u201d \u2014 The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}