Fruit flies that take their sweet time growing up tend to live longer, a new study led by an Iowa State University research ...

Fruit fly brains are smaller than a poppy seed, but that doesn't mean they aren't complex. For the first time, researchers have published a complete diagram of 50 million connections in an adult ...

After confirming that cocaine activates a fruit fly’s bitter-sensing taste receptors, Rothenfluh and Philyaw switched off those nerves. Once deactivated, there was little to stop the flies from ...

A little leg may reveal something big about how closely related insect species can drastically differ in body shape, ...

Scientists have found 50 million reasons to study the brain of a fruit fly. That's how many connections they discovered in the first complete map— known as a connectome—of an adult insect's brain.

BEIJING -- Researchers have constructed a comprehensive 3D spatiotemporal multi-omics atlas of single cells throughout the ...

Intricate map of tiny fruit fly brain marks major neuroscience milestone. Scientists mapped the fruit fly brain’s more than 50 million connections, a step in aiding future human brain research.

What happened. A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature.Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million ...

To get an insider's take on fruit fly prevention, we tapped entomologist Jody Green from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Green revealed the leading causes of fruit fly infestations and, most ...

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Wondering if this fruit fly research has gone too far. I saw 20 of them this morning, he remarks, none too pleased. Yes, but that aggravation today turns to wonder tomorrow, you’ll see!