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Filling the ocean in a jug. The tiny brain of a bee contained information that surprised scientists. What is that information, and how did scientists get it?
You must have seen the bee wandering around you. It causes various diseases.
Another thing is what is the size of this bee. What is the brain of a small creature that is not even the size of our fingernail?
But you will be surprised to know that there is a lot going on in this little brain of the bee; its brain controls all its functions just like a human brain controls the functions of the human body.
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It can walk, fly, eat, and even sing to win the heart of the male bee. For the first time, scientists have studied the brain of the bee with the help of neuroscience. The scientists have studied the shape of a bee and found something jaw-dropping. They found that a bee's brain contains almost 130,000 interconnected wires and more than 50 million complex connections.
It is the most detailed scientific study of any adult insect brain to date, and experts have hailed it as a major breakthrough in understanding the human brain. The head of the "bee brain research team" claims that this scientific study will 'provide more details about the thought process.'
Dr. Gregory Jeffries, from the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, said: 'Currently we don't know how the network of cells in our brains helps us communicate with each other.
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How do the signals work in this system by which we can recognize someone's face and hear someone's voice? The brain map of the bee is amazing and will actually help us understand the human brain as well.
So the important question is, how will a bee brain help scientists understand human thought processes?
The images obtained during this research have been published in the scientific magazine 'Journal Nature,' and these images show a bunch of wires that are beautiful but also quite complex.
But how is such a small Marvel controlling such a powerful computational task? The answer to this question lies in the structure and shape of the bee's brain. However, developing such a small computer capable of completing all these tasks is beyond the reach of modern science.
Dr. Mala Murthy of Princeton University was part of the research team. He says, 'The picture of the wiring, the scientific name of the connectome, will be very important to neuroscientists.'
"It will help researchers who are trying to understand how a healthy brain works." We hope that in the future it will be possible to compare what happens in our brains when something goes wrong.'
One of his colleagues, Dr. Lucia Prieto, agrees with Dr. Mala Murthy. He says that researchers have previously completed the brain connection of two simple insects, one with 300 brains and the other with 3000 brains. But the complete picture of the 130,000-wire connectome is a stunning technological breakthrough that will now open the way to exploring such connections in the brains of much larger animals, such as mice, and perhaps in decades, the human brain as well.
Scientists have been able to find many separate working circuits and also know how they are interconnected. For example, the wiring responsible for movement is located in the lower part of the brain, while the wiring associated with vision was found on the right and left sides of the brain, which involved a larger number of neurons since vision requires more computational power.
Although scientists already knew that circuits were separate, they were unaware of how they were interconnected or how they were connected to each other.