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Motor neurons choreograph fruit fly feeding in millisecond-by-millisecond sequence

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Motor neurons choreograph fruit fly feeding in millisecond-by-millisecond sequence
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Eating may look effortless, but behind every bite, the brain runs a split-second relay of coordinated movement. In a recent study, researchers zoomed into the tiny world of fruit flies, or Drosophila, to uncover how their motor neurons orchestrate the rapid sequence of muscle movements that makes feeding possible.

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