The life of a fruit fly consists of four phases ... Depending on the temperature, the flies can live for several weeks in such culture vessels with no need to replenish the food supply. However, they ...

Scientists found that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields, adding them to a list with sharks, bees, and even the platypus. Since they are common in research, this opens new avenues of study.

Then, in 1910, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan suggested that one of his Columbia University graduate students use fruit flies in an experiment. The study would test whether the subjects’ eyes ...

Fruit flies, which like humans are composed of numerous ... They offer alternatives to traditional cell-culture-based methods ...

You gotta love the fruit fly. Sure, they start out as revolting maggots, devour ripening fruit and infest the garbage pail. But they’re also invaluable scientific model organisms. The bristly bugs ...

A team of bioengineers at Harvard University's Rowland Institute has found two new ways to control a tiny creature, ...

Then again, apparently adding alcohol to their food increases the production of sex pheromones in male fruit flies, according ...

The global birthrate has been in significant decline for decades. In the U.S., couples are deciding to have children later in ...

On a soft piece of fermenting orange, a male fruit fly takes a sip of methanol-rich juice. Moments later, his body pulses ...

EPFL researchers use fruit fly brains and optogenetics to develop agile robotic systems, bridging neuroscience and advanced ...

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has investigated why the fruit fly Drosophila ...