A neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Alberta presented his research on the neural mechanisms of ...

Cheng Lyu, PhD., Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, California, USA, wins the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for his work on rewiring the olfactory neural circuit in fruit flies. ...

This summer, a small number of invasive Mediterranean fruit flies were detected in San Jose. In response, the state started doing something that might seem strange: releasing millions more fruit flies ...

Fruit flies are interesting little creatures. On top of being extremely invasive and annoying to deal with, they also have a bit of a super power when it comes to drugs: they don't like cocaine for ...

Researchers have found a new role for the transcription factor (proteins that regulate the transcription, or copying, of genes). In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named Traffic Jam, ...

Even the tiniest of living things are capable of some amazing forms of locomotion, and some come with highly sophisticated sensor suites and manage to source their energy from the environment.

Adrian Rothenfluh, PhD (left) and Pearl Cummins-Beebee (right, also an author on the paper) inspect a bottle of fruit flies in the lab. For the first time, researchers have created genetically ...

Feeding cocaine to "franken-flies" could lead to a cure for drug addiction, say scientists. Researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies for the first time that can become addicted to the ...