22 May 2026

Science Snapshot: The Connectome Revolution – Seeing the Brain from Within

How do you make sense of a brain with 50 million connections? One powerful approach is to build a connectome – a detailed map of how neurons are wired together. In this short video, researchers from the Champalimaud Foundation explain how they contributed to the FlyWire Consortium’s groundbreaking global effort to reconstruct the first complete connectome of an adult fruit fly brain.

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