Fly Brain HubGoogle Research: A connectomics milestone
Google Research (Michał Januszewski, Viren Jain)
The release-day post from the Google Research side of the collaboration, describing the male central nervous system reconstruction as the largest brain map by neuron count to date: over 166,000 neurons and 125 million synaptic connections, led by HHMI Janelia with Google Research and academic collaborators, published in Cell as a study of sexual dimorphism. It points to the Janelia download page and to Neuroglancer for viewing the volume. This is the announcement the entire September 2026 demo wave grew out of.
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- research.google https://research.google/blog/a-connectomics-milestone-mapping-the-complete-male-fruit-fly-brain/