Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million connections inside the poppy seed–sized brain of the fly, Drosophila melanogaster, took 10 years and involved hundreds of researchers ...

New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals ...

When you enjoy food, it’s not just about the taste. The appearance, flavor, and texture also play a role. Some food items are ...

In fact, during the 1900s, there had been a few reports published in relatively small journals, describing summit disease in wild fruit flies, or Drosophila melanogaster ... how her fungus hijacked ...

During the last century, biologists have extensively studied Drosophila melanogaster ... mathematical model to study how neurons in the brain might adjust their connections to learn and store ...

2003 ). For example, when expressed in the Drosophila brain, Tau protein—which forms neurofibrillary tangle pathology in AD—causes adult onset, progressive neurodegeneration, truncated lifespan and ...

IN an investigation on the chemoreceptivity of Drosophila melanogaster (Oregon), Begg and Hogben 1 stated that the normal undesiccated males of this species showed a response to moisture if the ...