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What Is MaleCNS? The First Whole-CNS Wiring Diagram of a Male Fruit Fly, and How It Differs from FlyWire
MaleCNS maps a male fruit fly's entire central nervous system: 166,700 neurons, with brain and ventral nerve cord in one dataset for the first time. v1.0 shipped June 2026, the Cell paper in September, licensed CC BY 4.0. It's a separate effort from FlyWire: different sex, microscope and AI. Of 11,710 types only 138 are dimorphic. Regrouping FlyWire's annotations by region, I found descending neurons the most sex-variable, at 8.4%.
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fruit-flyOct 4, 20267 min
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What People Built with the Fruit Fly Brain: Mario, Minecraft, DOOM and More — 9 Projects Taken Apart, 2 Retested
Since the fly connectome went public, GitHub has filled with fruit-fly-brain projects: DOOM, Mario, Flappy Bird, Minecraft, a phone app, a desktop pet, even trading signals. I read nine READMEs and asked how many neurons, who really decides the actions, and whether there are controls. I retested two: DesktopFly passes all its suites; Fly Mario falls in a pit 1.7 s after I cut its giant fiber, freezes at 0.8× weights and dies at 1.3×.
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fruit-flyOct 3, 202611 min
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