A widely-used agricultural chemical sprayed on fruits and vegetables to prevent fungal disease is also killing beneficial ...

Here, we use in vivo two-photon calcium imaging while precisely controlling temperature to investigate how the Drosophila melanogaster circadian clock ... independently of Cryptochrome (CRY) in live ...

Most textbooks credit nearby epithelial cells with the heavy lifting of organ building, because epithelial sheets act like ...

Some 45 labs in the prestigious sciences center were damaged and might take years -- and tens of millions -- to rebuild.

If you’ve noticed tiny flies buzzing around your kitchen lately, you’re not alone. Fruit flies, also called Drosophila melanogaster, are very common at this time of year. These little insects are ...

Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are especially attracted to the smell of fermenting fruit, often swarming our kitchens during warmer months. D. melanogaster is a commonly used model organism in ...

Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are tremendously fond of fermented foodstuffs. Technically, it's the yeast they crave, produced by yummy rotting fruit, but they can consume quite a lot of ...

A simple, freely available analysis tool and hardware for analyzing fruit flies allows opportunities for researchers in low-income settings or out in the field to screen for genes and nerve ...

In an article published in Developmental Cell, scientists show how neurons establish their connections in specific layers ...