Kenta Asahina and Valentina Fajner (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Kenta Asahina and Valentina Fajner

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Kenta Asahina (left) and Valentina Fajner (right) developed genetic tools to isolate individual neuron types in a fruit fly brain and uncovered their surprisingly different functions, providing a roadmap for understanding equivalent human brain signals.

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