Modeling Fruit Fly Brains to Better Understand Alzheimer’s

Originally published at: Modeling Fruit Fly Brains to Better Understand Alzheimer’s | NVIDIA Technical Blog

Researchers at the University of Sheffield (UK) and Columbia University (USA) have launched a GPU-accelerated project to simulate a complete model of the adult fruit fly brain for the first time. The project aims to develop a better understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and new drug targets. The team is developing an open software platform to…