Morgan's experiments are not only fundamental to our knowledge of heredity; they have also made an animal respectable for science, which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, ...

Human oocytes have been matured and fertilized by spermatozoa in vitro. There may be certain clinical and scientific uses for human eggs fertilized by this procedure.

A combination of methods, including a new method for tagging genes, demonstrates that the chemosensory co-receptors of Drosophila melanogaster (Orco, IR8a, IR25a, IR76b) are expressed widely and ...

House Bill 428 would protect access to in-vitro fertilization. It is sponsored by state Rep. Lehman Franklin. Franklin had his own story about how IVF had impacted his life. After 10 years and ...

A phenomenon called parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction where the embryo develops from an egg without fertilization, could have occurred, the aquarium said. Kevin Feldheim, manager of ...

Hence, translation of these findings into the clinic and therapeutic settings have been mostly unsuccessful. Over the last decades, Drosophila has been instrumental in drug discovery for many facets ...

We show that Drosophila female germline stem cells (GSCs) provide a powerful system for studying Polycomb silencing. GSCs have a non-canonical distribution of PRC2 activity and lack silenced chromatin ...

Finally, we will review and discuss the ecological relevance of specific chemicals and chemoreceptors in the context of the particular requirements of two stages of Drosophila life cycle, the larva ...