To find this out, the scientists used a combination of genetics, dietary changes, and biochemical analysis of metabolites to study different mutations of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

Insects cannot move their eyes the way humans do during a tennis game. But new research suggests fruit flies evolved a different strategy to adjust their vision without moving their heads.

A University of Utah researcher is using fruit flies \u2014 specifically studying their eyes \u2014 to screen drugs that could be used to treat patients with SynGAP-1, a rare genetic disease.

Additionally, the inclusion of genetically identical flies enables researchers to examine behavioral variations arising from the same genetic background, also offering insights into the influence ...

The team made fruit flies in which MAN1B1 was mutated in the flies’ eyes. The mutation causes the eyes to be small and rough. The researchers tested about 1,500 existing drugs on the flies.

Their study, published in Volume 12 of Scientific Data on March 7, 2025, documents the behaviors of over 30,000 individual D. melanogaster, commonly known as fruit fly, across 105 genetically ...

The fruit fly (a mutant one is shown here in a colorized scanning electron micrograph) is a longtime lab darling of biology. Eye of Science/Science Source By Darren Incorvaia October 1, 2024 at 12 ...

Photos of fly eyes with different colors ranging from normal (left, red) to abnormal (bright red, middle, mutation in the cinnabar gene), and white, right (mutation in the white gene). Abnormal eye ...

To find this out, the scientists used a combination of genetics, dietary changes, and biochemical analysis of metabolites to study different mutations of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Sofia ...