Most textbooks credit nearby epithelial cells with the heavy lifting of organ building, because epithelial sheets act like ...

Researchers have studied gene expression dynamics during metamorphosis in two species of flies. Published in the Genome ...

FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter ...

Regeneration, the ability to heal damaged or lost tissues, is both an everyday and a real-life superpower. Health research ...

INTRODUCTION. Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are considered the most economically important group of pest arthropods for fruit growing worldwide (DIAS et al., 2018).The Mediterranean fruit fly ...

An oriental fruit fly is viewed up close in a macro shot in Nagaon district, Assam, India, on May 26, 2025. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NewsNation) — Scientists in recent ...

This research demonstrates that fruit flies can function as controllable microrobots, steered with 80–94 % accuracy using visual and optogenetic olfactory cues. The system enabled a range of ...

With the artificial intelligence era, more and more advanced artificial intelligent methodologies are proposed and widely applied in various fields to predict the enterprises performance effectively.

Flies have around 75% of the human genes that are known to be involved in disease, and the insects have been instrumental in discovering the underlying biology behind other substance dependencies.

Flies have around 75% of the human genes that are known to be involved in disease, and the insects have been instrumental in discovering the underlying biology behind other substance dependencies.

Now that researchers know how to breed the modified fruit flies, they can more easily study how cocaine addiction evolves in the body. Not only that, but they can do so on a much faster timeline ...