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MaleCNS project previewGoogle Research / HHMI Janelia and collaborators · original announcement
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MaleCNS

The central resource behind the September wave: an adult male fly’s brain and ventral nerve cord, mapped at synapse resolution.

MaleCNSFoundationDataset

What’s actually happening

The official site dates v1.0 to June 8, 2026 and the Cell paper to September 3. Counts depend on filtering: synaptic contacts and directed neuron-pair edges are different quantities.

Sources reviewed September 16, 2026. Experiments were not independently reproduced.