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"Our findings suggest that control for actions is highly distributed in local modules that link up and work together in different ways," Bates said.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

"The new connectome represents a major advance for the field, with the ability to understand how circuits in the brain receive feedback from and control the actions of the body," she said.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Bates said many discoveries from fruit fly neuroscience have carried over from invertebrates to mammals, including findings related to navigation, olfaction, and memory.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

At the same time, Lee and his colleagues were building a connectome of the fruit fly nerve cord, which controls the legs, wings, and other appendages while also processing sensory information.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

We know she was a devout Catholic who grew up in the Philippines, was confined in leprosariums for much of her life, and died in the United States.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly