Feeding female fruit flies a diet low in the amino acid tyrosine improves their ability to endure food shortage, reduces their reproductive output, and causes them to live longer, RIKEN ...

Fruit flies live considerably longer when fed a diet that limits consumption of a certain amino acid during early adulthood, ...

90, No. 4, Dec., 2007 Effect of Adult Diet on Longevity of Ste... Fly longevity is critical to sterile release programs for Mediterranean fruit flies (medflies) because the longer sterile flies are ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a new study. The paradox of enhanced memory despite sleep loss could be explained ...

Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily bodily rhythms, including sleep and metabolic disorders ...

Only three molecular changes are needed for fruit flies to digest milkweed toxins Gene-edited fruit flies have gained some of monarch butterflies’ superpowers — specifically, the ability to ...