In a recent study, scientists at Leipzig University have for the first time demonstrated play-like behavior in flies. They found that fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) voluntarily and repeatedly ...

For fruit flies, finding the right mate is all about the right song. Now, research shows that male flies don't just try to ...

The answer lies in how infected individuals invest into controlling pathogen proliferation and mitigating damage, two strategies respectively called resistance and disease tolerance. Pathogen ...

This is an important and solid study that examines the role of TFAM, a protein that helps maintain mtDNA, in mtDNA mutator mice. The authors have demonstrated that TFAM's counteractive role in mtDNA ...

A Colgan High School senior was named one of the top 40 finalists in the 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search, a prestigious ...

The fruit flies will be used to assess how space travel affects living organisms and what kind of biological changes and stresses they go through during the flight.

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human ...

Cheers: To Drosophila melanogaster. It seems unlikely that we would cheer fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster is the scientific name), but some interesting work is being done with the pests at Washin ...

Most people see fruit flies as a nuisance. A scientist at Washington State University Vancouver sees them as the key to understanding evolution.

University of Iowa researchers have found and confirmed a gene that allows female fruit flies to get on the same frequency as courting males. Mosquitoes have the same gene and a similar courtship ...

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is well known as a fruit pest, especially in summer. It is widely used in research and has become one of the best established model organisms for the study of ...

Is a nephew ‘family’ or a ‘relative’? This distinction is critical to the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) probe into the alleged Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission (CGPSC ...