Researchers in Japan have genetically transferred a unique courtship behavior from one fruit fly species to another. By turning on a single gene in insulin-producing neurons, the team successfully ...
Researchers at Leipzig University have gained important insights into learning mechanisms in the brain of the fruit fly ...
Our lab studies rare human disease phenotypes in order to gain insight into general principles of human health. Methods include clinical studies in rare disease, genomics and model organism genetics ...
DOUBLE WINGS: An ultrabithorax mutant fly has a total duplication of the body segment that carries wings. Recent issues of The American Journal of Human Genetics have featured a newcomer: Drosophila ...
Cornell University scientists have expanded a CRISPR-based system called MAGIC into a powerful genome-wide toolkit for studying genes at single-cell resolution. This innovation slashes months from ...