To your dismay, fruit flies love nothing more than hovering all over your kitchen produce. Some people use wine corks to get ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute-led research has uncovered three neural circuit mechanisms that enable female fruit flies to ...

Sperm are the most diverse and rapidly evolving cell type. Why sperm have undergone such dramatic evolution is a mystery that ...

Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies, are convenient research tools, and they have many genes in common with humans. | ...

One example of this is in the Drosophila (fruit fly) abdominal epithelium during metamorphosis, where larval epidermal cells (LECs) are replaced by histoblasts, which are the precursors of the ...

One example of this is in the Drosophila (fruit fly) abdominal epithelium during metamorphosis, where larval epidermal cells (LECs) are replaced by histoblasts, which are the precursors of the ...

The discovery of a gut-to-brain regulation pathway in flies highlights the potential for certain medications to be further ...

Silencing specific sets of these neurons in the brain inhibited summiting activity in the infected flies. E. muscae-infected “zombie” Drosophila fruit flies behave similarly to houseflies.

When complex multicellular organisms grow and develop, their tissues must undergo remodeling. As new cells begin to ...

While exploring how the flies adapted to such conditions, Acharya found increased levels of an enzyme— CG8093 —in their guts.

But the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has a smaller and therefore more easily mappable brain, allowing scientists to gain detailed insights into how its nervous system drives behavior.