News tagged with fruit flies
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The sweet smell of aging
What does the smell of a good meal mean to you? It may mean more than you think. Specific odors that represent food or indicate danger are capable of altering an animal's lifespan and physiological profile by activating a ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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Gene links neurodegeneration and cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- In work that could lead to new insights into how neurons protect against neurodegeneration, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory report that a gene family known for ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Computer Technique Creates Map of a Fruit Fly Brain
Researchers, led by Hanchuan Peng, at the Janelia Farm Research Campus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia are working to map the fruit fly brain in a way that highlights how neurons ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 12, 2010 |
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How fruit flies taste water
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to detect water and regulate water intake is essential for all animals because if cells have too little or too much water the consequences for the animal can be disastrous. It ...
Apr 08, 2010 |
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For Stem Cells, Practice Makes Perfect
(PhysOrg.com) -- Multipotent stem cells have the capacity to develop into different types of cells by reprogramming their DNA to turn on different combinations of genes, a process called "differentiation." ...
Apr 05, 2010 |
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Flies Don't Think Much Of Turning (w/ Video)
The next time a fly dodges your swatter, take a moment to appreciate how maneuverable these little pests are. Fruit flies can make a complete U-turn in one-tenth of the time it takes you to blink.
Apr 02, 2010 |
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Researchers Find Differences In How The Brains Of Some Individuals Process The World Around Them
(PhysOrg.com) -- People who are shy or introverted may actually process their world differently than others, leading to differences in how they respond to stimuli, according to Stony Brook researchers and ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 02, 2010 |
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Scientists reverse Alzheimer's-like memory loss in fruit flies
By blocking the cellular signaling activity of a protein, a team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has prevented memory loss in fruit flies caused by brain plaques similar to those thought to cause ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Insulin-like signal needed to keep stem cells alive in adult brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, biologists have found a signal that keeps stem cells alive in the adult brain, providing a focus for scientists looking for ways to re-grow or re-seed stem ...
Mar 25, 2010 |
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How does a heart know when it's big enough?
A protein discovered in fruit fly eyes has brought a Johns Hopkins team closer to understanding how the human heart and other organs automatically "right size" themselves, a piece of information that may hold clues to controlling ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Sex on the brain: 'Doublesex' gene key to determining fruit fly gender
The brains of males and females, and how they use them, may be far more different then previously thought, at least in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 21, 2010 |
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Biologists' work with 'glow-in-the-dark' sperm sheds light on sexual selection
Previously unobservable events occurring between insemination and fertilization are the subject of a groundbreaking new article in Science magazine (March 18) by Mollie Manier, John Belote and Scott Pitnic ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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An organic approach to pest control -- releasing super-sexed (but sterile) male insects
An improved method for sustainable pest control using "super-sexed" but sterile male insects to copulate with female ones is being developed by agricultural researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ...
Mar 17, 2010 |
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Fruit flies and test tubes open new window on Alzheimer's disease
A team of scientists from Cambridge and Sweden have discovered a molecule that can prevent a toxic protein involved in Alzheimer's disease from building up in the brain. Dr. Leila Luheshi, of the Department of Genetics at ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Fruit Flies -- A Model for Bodybuilders
(PhysOrg.com) -- The human body operates by a precisely regulated interplay of different cell types such as blood, nerve and muscle cells. Together with colleagues from the Research Institute of Molecular ...
Mar 11, 2010 |
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