For the first time, researchers at Leipzig University and other institutions have gained comprehensive insights into the ...

When fruit flies are infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, their sex lives—and ability to reproduce—change dramatically.

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that impaired glucose metabolism in glial cells, a type of cell in our nervous system, plays a key role in the degeneration caused by ...

Researchers have gained comprehensive insights into the entire nervous system of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). The study describes in detail the neurons that span the entire nervous system ...

Learn how the unique effects of Wolbachia bacteria in female fruit flies could help us fight against deadly mosquito-borne ...

The paper describes all the neurons in the neck of the fruit fly that could be identified using light microscopy data. This allowed the researchers to analyse the circuits formed by these cells in ...

Their findings are published in Cell Reports. Female fruit flies rely on key brain functions like sensing and decision-making to pick their mates. When Karr and his colleagues studied infected ...

One day last week I heard Mary Alice yelling for me to come quickly. Naturally I listened and went to her rescue. I saw a ...

This parasite invades brain cells to make fruit flies get their freak on. Understanding how it works could help control ...