Inert amyloid fibrils of the Alzheimer's Aβ-peptide 1–42 (Aβ 42) were incubated overnight with liposomes and various lipids including cholesterol, sphingolipids, gangliosides and brain extract.

As beautiful as it is complex, the fly's brain has more than 130,000 wires with 50 million intricate connections They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates - all this ...

A major component of brain tissue, lipids are fatty compounds that make up 35%–40% of all the molecules in the gray matter cell bodies and as much as 78% of the axons' myelin sheaths in the ...

A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature. Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million connections inside ...

Princeton University researchers used fruit fly brains to capture the process by which the brain identifies behaviorally useful information in the external environment and uses it to determine our ...

Aside from genetic research, the FlyEM project seeks to fully map a little fly’s brain’s neural connections. This common fly, called drosophila melanogaster (or ‘lesser fruit fly’) has ...

total brain lipid, and formation of the myelin lipid cerebroside sulfate (sulfatide) have been studied in the newborn rat. Brain weight, amount of brain lipids, and the formation in vivo of ...

A map of all connections in the fly brain For Drosophila, an international research consortium has recently published a map of all connections between all neurons in the fly brain - the so-called ...