Recent Precision-Tuning of the Fruitfly Brain: Scientists at England's University of Oxford know how to make fruitflies scared of things they weren't scared of previously by implanting artificial memories in their brains after somehow locating and managing the precise 12 neurons that enable the flies to learn things.

The implanted "danger" (the smell of sweat-soaked athletic shoes) causes the flies to scatter at the first whiff.

Scientists at the University of Toronto know how to make fruitflies sexually attractive to flies of both sexes and to different fly species by removing the specific hydrocarbon brain cells that produce the pheromones thought to attract sex-specific mates.