Salk Institute -- Navlakha Lab (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Salk Institute -- Navlakha Lab

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This image of flies buzzing around glasses of wine illustrates how flies detect novel odors using a tactic similar to that of a computer using a computational tool called a Bloom filter. In the fly version, neurons called Kenyon cells in a region of the fly brain called the mushroom body (MBON-a'3) process olfactory information and broadcast a 'novelty alert' signal when a new odor is encountered.

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