While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

The study investigates an emerging research field: the interaction between sleep and development. The authors use Drosophila larvae sleep as a study model and provide valuable insight into how ...

This is often used to sort DNA fragments, but Riedl used it to immerse a Drosophila larva in an electric field. “Everyone who runs a lab has this device,” said Riedl, who now works at Imperial ...

Electroreception, the ability to sense electric fields, is a fascinating trait found in species like sharks, bees, and ...

Much as in the Drosophila larva, whose imaginal discs first revealed the existence of developmental compartments, the rhombomeric subdivisions of the vertebrate hindbrain are cell-lineage ...

Debabratee Dhar interviews Sharbatanu Chatterjee, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Neurosciences Paris-Saclay ...

In this paper Weber et al. investigate the role of 4 dopaminergic neurons of the Drosophila larva in mediating the association between an aversive high-salt stimulus and a neutral odor. The 4 DANs ...

Follow these pro tips on how to get rid of fruit flies in your house and garden. DIY fruit fly traps with apple cider vinegar ...