Scientists found that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields, adding them to a list with sharks, bees, and even the platypus. Since they are common in research, this opens new avenues of study.

Damaged mitochondria are recycled within cells. Scientists find a link between cellular health and diseases like Parkinson’s ...

Alcohol enhances the production of sex pheromones, which are chemical signals used by fruit flies to attract mates.

Damage to the genetic material of mitochondria – the mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA for short – can lead to diseases such as ...

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Drosophila have been the focus of genetic research for over a century: in the 1910s, they were used by Thomas Morgan at Columbia to show that genes are on chromosomes, and then by Morgan's student, ...

Iola native Molly Stanley describes the unease among medical peers due to federal cuts “It takes a long time to do science,” ...

The global birthrate has been in significant decline for decades. In the U.S., couples are deciding to have children later in ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute-led research has produced a complete connectome of the Drosophila visual system, enabling systematic investigations into how visual information is processed and relayed ...

Several transcription factors in developing neurons exhibit broad-to-restricted expression patterns, but the relevance of ...