Is it possible to get too close to a fruit fly? Let's say you were to zoom in 1000x on the tiny beast (that's the limit of most optical microscopes). What would you see? I'll tell you what you'd ...

But most conventional techniques require immobilizing the fly's head under a microscope. Picture for a moment being asked to go on a first date strapped inside an fMRI scanner.

A new fly discovered in Thailand is the world's smallest. It is five times smaller than a fruit fly and tinier than a grain of salt (0.4 millimeters) in length — half the size of the smallest ...

They are the tiny, pesky flies circling the fruit bowl in the kitchen: Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, is one of the most important species for genetic research. Using an ...

First, the researchers created an imaging window on the fruit fly’s head. They surgically removed the exoskeleton from the top of the head, which is about the size of a few grains of salt, and sealed ...