Using new technique, researchers make surprising discoveries about how flies' brains respond to tastes - Science Daily

Little is known about how sweet and bitter tastes are represented by the brain circuits that link sensation to behavior. In a new study, researchers describe how they developed a new imaging technique and used it to map the neural activity of fruit flies in r…

Taste matters to fruit flies, just as it does to humans: like people, the flies tend to seek out and consume sweet-tasting foods and reject foods that taste bitter. However, little is known about how… [+5411 chars]

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