In startled fruit flies, hints of how our brain circuits work — and fail
Meet the "fruit fly liberator," who's using the humble insect as a way to gain insights into the human brain.
ASHBURN, Va. — Gwyneth Card likes to say that she’s a “fruit fly liberator,” even if she frees her flies with the threat of death from above.
Inside a small, windowless room in Ashburn, Va., she frightens fly after fly into flight. Within a
