When a fruit fly is navigating straight forward at high speed, why does it know that it's not straying off course? Because as ...

"We worked with fruit fly models of the condition to assess whether these altered ... The American Journal of Human Genetics (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2025.03.012 ...

Despite the recent advances in genetics, understanding the genetic ... to help answer these questions, with the humble fruit fly emerging as an ideal candidate. These tiny insects share many ...

A UCL research team has found clues as to why some nerve cells die in dementia and not others, through a new study in fruit ...

Despite the recent advances in genetics, understanding the genetic ... to help answer these questions, with the humble fruit fly emerging as an ideal candidate. These tiny insects share many ...

Male fruit flies have several tricks for finding a mate, from sensing pheromones in the dark to relying on visual cues in the light. Now, new research reveals that these tiny suitors are ...

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Warmer weather means pesky fruit flies will be on the rise. Avoid an infestation with prevention hacks from an entomologist.

In the 1920s, for example, Hermann Joseph Muller observed that the outward appearance of fruit flies is completely normal even if they are exposed to heavy doses of radioactivity. Their progeny, on ...

1. I was first exposed to the awesome power of Drosophila genetics as a graduate student in the laboratory of John Kiger at the University of California, Davis. A 1972 paper inspired my respect for ...