Flying through a fly's brain

Can flying through the fly brain bring us insight into how the fly flies?

Learn more about this new approach to combining lattice-sheet microscopy with expansion microscopy, developed by researchers from the Media Lab's Synthetic Neurobiology group and collaborators from MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital.

Video credits: Y. Bando (Toshiba Memory Corp/MIT), K. Hiwada (Toshiba Memory Corp), R. Gao (MIT/Janelia), S. Upadhyayula (HMS/Janelia), S. Asano (MIT), Y. Aso (Janelia), E. Betzig (UC Berkeley/Janelia), E. Boyden (MIT).

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