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

When a fruit fly is navigating straight forward at high speed, why does it know that it's not straying off course? Because as ...

When a fruit fly is navigating straight forward at high speed, why does it know that it's not straying off course? Because as ...

This image shows the complete fruit fly connectome: all 139,255 brain cells in the brain of an adult fruit fly. Activity within these neurons drives an entire organism, from sensory perception to ...

A UCL research team has found clues as to why some nerve cells die in dementia and not others, through a new study in fruit ...

Now, Columbia University neuroscientists have identified, for the first time, brain-cell circuitry in fruit flies that ...

In fruit flies, for example, a malfunctioning body-plan gene can produce a fly with ... The DNA code in homeobox genes directs the cell to make chemical sequences, which in turn regulate still ...

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 ...