Soft-bodied robots are unlocking a new era of adaptive machines that can safely interact with the human body, squeeze through tight spaces, and propel themselves autonomously.

The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...

In this paper Weber et al. investigate the role of 4 dopaminergic neurons of the Drosophila larva in mediating the association between an aversive high-salt stimulus and a neutral odor. The 4 DANs ...

Drosophila melanogaster, a common fruit fly, transforms from a tiny egg to a fully grown adult. Under the right conditions, it hatches within a day, wriggles through life as a larva for less than ...

This valuable study investigates neural circuits mediating motor responses to cold in Drosophila larvae. Using a combination of behavioral analysis, genetic manipulations, EM connectomics, and ...

melanogaster. Approximately 70 third-instar larvae were collected to extract hemolymph for glucose level measurement. The larvae were placed in microtubes and homogenized by using a micropestle. The ...

These larvae weren’t just collecting junk by accident ... In lab tests, bone collectors readily chewed through silk to devour live Drosophila pupae. They even ate each other.

In Drosophila, many species will mate with each other but quantitative ... In a few combinations of Elegans-Group species, F1 hybrids arrest during larval development. The arrest stages of these ...