When light conditions rapidly change, our eyes have to respond to this change in fractions of a second to maintain stable ...

In the game of evolution, key behavioral adaptations that confer fitness in survival and reproduction, paying tremendous ...

Humans and fruit flies both may become forgetful as they age. But because fruit flies have a lifespan of only about two months, they can be a useful model for understanding the cognitive decline that ...

Researchers, supported by the NIH's BRAIN Initiative, have created a comprehensive map of the fruit fly brain, identifying ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

Such a corrective 'gain control' mechanism exists in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, where it acts directly downstream of the photoreceptors. Researchers identify neuronal networks and ...

New research on flies suggests that mifepristone may extend lifespan by enhancing cells' ability to clear out damaged ...

Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, along with a team of UNM students ...

You have likely not spent much time thinking about the uterus of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. But then, neither ...

You have likely not spent much time thinking about the uterus of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. But then, neither ...