This is a picture of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) sperm, showing the growing ... and blue marks the DNA of each sperm cell.

Researchers have shed new light on how tissues in the body are repaired following the damage and premature death of tissue ...

Researchers have shed new light on how tissues in the body are repaired following the damage and premature death of tissue ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

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, ...

Only three molecular changes are needed for fruit flies to digest milkweed toxins ... charged sodium and potassium atoms in and out of cells. But it still was possible that the changes were ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a new study. The paradox of enhanced memory despite sleep loss could be explained ...