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

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 ...

The researchers observed that the maggots consistently preferred the rotten fruit over the fresh one. This behavior suggested ...

A schematic of Drosophila melanogaster is from (Namiki et al., 2018). (B) An image of a standard fly brain with a rendering of the mushroom bodies (MB) and the antennal lobes (AL). Projection neurons ...

has a much simpler brain with just about 140,000 neurons. So identifying and monitoring particular neurons in their nervous system is easier. “The larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster ...

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is well known as a fruit pest, especially in summer. It is widely used in research and has become one of the best established model organisms for the study of ...

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is well known as a fruit pest, especially in summer. It is widely used in research and has become one of the best established model organisms for the study of ...

A combination of methods, including a new method for tagging genes, demonstrates that the chemosensory co-receptors of Drosophila melanogaster (Orco, IR8a, IR25a, IR76b) are expressed widely and ...

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human ...