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A hungry fly doesn’t just eat more: it moves differently, sips differently, goes to different places. How do we profile “hunger” in the most holistic manner we can?

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social

Contextualized phenovectors reveal a Drosophila serotonergic circuit controlling satiety https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.01.735755v1

Sangyu Xu

@xusangyu.com

We believe that by first defining a benchmark ground truth from natural starvation experiments, and second matching phenovectors from intervention experiments to the ground truth, we uncover the most faithful movers of hunger-satiety transitions.

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