All animals, large or small, have to move at an incredible precision to interact with the world. Understanding how the brain ...

Most plants and animals are exposed to a wide range of environmental variations. A study published in the journal Nature and ...

With biomanufacturing often a limiting factor for drug developers, Canada’s Future Fields is heralding its bug-based approach ...

Most plants and animals are exposed to a wide range of environmental variations. A study published in the journal Nature and ...

For larger animals, this is challenging because of the complexity of their brains and nervous systems. But the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has a smaller and therefore more easily mappable ...

You have likely not spent much time thinking about the uterus of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. But then, neither ...

For larger animals, this is challenging because of the complexity of their brains and nervous systems. But the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has a smaller and therefore more easily mappable ...

Despite stories of "wasps getting drunk" and "beetles consuming beer," it has been thought that alcohol consumption in the ...

Single-Gene Test Crosses Recall that in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the ebony-body allele (e) is recessive to the normal yellow-body allele (E). Say you are given a male fly with a ...

technique in Drosophila melanogaster-derived S2R+ cells. This method involved crosslinking RNA to the Exp5 protein with UV ...

My research group studies microbial pathogenesis using the model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, to explore how carrying persistent and non-lethal infections influences the organisms behavior and ...