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

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 ...

Fruit flies can fly or walk forward at high speeds in a perfect straight line. That’s because, at every moment, a network of neurons in their brain detects even the slightest deviation from their path ...

When a fruit ... it guides the fly’s steering behavior. A critical subtraction First, they took a closer look at a well-known class of neurons, called “horizontal system” cells, or HS ...