Scientists have for the first time demonstrated play-like behavior in flies. They found that fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) voluntarily and repeatedly visited a carousel.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

Genetic engineering is the act of modifying ... lyase and mercuric reductase from Escherichia coli in Drosophila melanogaster and Danio rerio to demethylate methylmercury and remove it from ...

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 ...

Oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) signaling influences complex social behaviors in diverse species, including social monogamy in prairie voles. How Oxtr regulates specific components of social attachment ...

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.

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 ...