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 ...

Scientists say that alcohol has been in the natural world for millions of years: "moderate ethanol intake is associated with ...

When light conditions rapidly change, our eyes have to respond to this change in fractions of a second to maintain stable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...