An international team of scientists has discovered that tiny changes in the timing of the expression of a single gene can ...

Years of research in the field of genetics have offered interesting insights spanning the origins and development of heredity ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

Such connections between fruit flies and humans offer a reminder of an intriguing reality: We're not that different genetically. Flies have about 13,000 known genes, humans only a few thousand more.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) researchers are unraveling the secrets of the fruit fly brain to advance robotics. A team from the institution's Neuroengineering Laboratory have used ...

Then researchers discovered an internal compass in the tiny fruit fly. The fly's compass is very accurate, but it's built from a really small network, contrary to what previous theories assumed.