Cellular traffic jams inside a fruit fly embryo might sound like a minor detail, but new work suggests they help flip a ...

For just a few hours, shimmering waves of calcium move through cells in the developing eyes of fruit flies. These spontaneous waves serve a purpose, enabling communication between cells and shaping ...

Food ingestion is one of the defining behaviours of all animals, but its quantification and analysis remain challenging. This is especially the case for feeding behaviour in small, genetically ...

This important study presents a technically rigorous and carefully controlled analysis of the signalling potential of cancer-associated gain-of-function Notch alleles. The work is clearly presented, ...

A simple, freely available analysis tool and hardware for analyzing fruit flies allows opportunities for researchers in low-income settings or out in the field to screen for genes and nerve circuits ...

Retinal calcium waves in the developing Drosophila eye, visualized with a genetically encoded calcium indicator showing active calcium signals across supporting cells.

Genetic studies in model organisms, including Drosophila, have a rich history of fundamental insights in neuroscience, including the identification and functional dissection of genes important in ...

Viruses were detected in 32 of the culture medium supernates from 42 Drosophila melanogaster cell lines. The picornaviruses DCV, DPV and DAV, which also have been found in natural and laboratory ...

Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine have characterized 100 conserved Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk orthologue ...

Twenty-eight recessive sex-linked mutant characters in Drosophila willistoni are described and their linkage relations considered. 2. In general, the genetic behavior of willistoni (as regards ...

An unconventional research project by undergraduate and high school students has led to the publication of an encyclopedia of over 1000 genes, including 421 that were previously unknown. For many STEM ...