In a recent study, scientists at Leipzig University have for the first time demonstrated play-like behavior in flies. They found that fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) voluntarily and repeatedly ...

In a recent study, scientists at Leipzig University have for the first time demonstrated play-like behaviour in flies. They found that fruit flies ...

The fruit flies will be used to assess how space travel affects living organisms and what kind of biological changes and stresses they go through during the flight.

The play-like behaviour of the flies described by the researchers, involving voluntary passive movements such as swinging, bobbing, sliding or turning, has now been demonstrated in insects for the ...

Behind many breakthroughs in science, there’s often a woman who didn’t follow the rules - she rewrote them. Whether it’s in a ...

This important study identifies a new key factor in orchestrating the process of glial wrapping of axons in Drosophila wandering larvae. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is convincing ...

This study shows that Drosophila busckii has evolved a tolerance to DMDS, a potent insecticide, likely due to an insensitivity in its cytochrome c oxidase (COX) enzyme complex.

This is an important and solid study that examines the role of TFAM, a protein that helps maintain mtDNA, in mtDNA mutator mice. The authors have demonstrated that TFAM's counteractive role in mtDNA ...

Until recently, few would have questioned whether two tools, in particular — GenBank, the world’s largest repository of full genetic sequences, and the Sequence Read Archive, which comprises ...

A CRISPR-based system that erases itself from fly populations may offer a safer approach to tackling insecticide resistance ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help ...