A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered that the genes required for learning, memory, aggression and other complex behaviors originated around 650 million years ago.
Evolution
Jul 14, 2023
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Researchers led by Christi Gendron at the University of Michigan have found the link between death perception and accelerated aging in flies. Their new study, published June 13 in the open access journal PLOS Biology shows ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2023
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Researchers have begun to explore the underlying neural activity of eating behaviors in fruit flies to better understand the motives that drive feeding.
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2023
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Taste matters to fruit flies, just as it does to humans: like people, the flies tend to seek out and consume sweet-tasting foods and reject foods that taste bitter. However, little is known about how sweet and bitter tastes ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 22, 2022
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How are networks of neurons connected to make functional circuits? This has been a long standing question in neuroscience. To answer this fundamental question, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 12, 2021
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Everyone knows it: An entire box of Girl Scout cookies counts as one serving, right?
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 9, 2020
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The world is filled with millions upon millions of distinct smells, but how mammals' brains evolved to tell them apart is something of a mystery.
Evolution
Jul 18, 2019
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A new neural recording technique developed by EPFL bioengineers enables for the first time the comprehensive measurement of neural circuits that control limb movement. Tested on the fruit fly, results from the technique may ...
Biotechnology
Oct 22, 2018
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Researchers from the University of Oxford have identified a small neural circuit in male fruit flies that has evolved to allow them to perform the complex mating ritual.
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2016
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Learning a first language is somewhat effortless. We start learning from our parents before we can even remember and the words and sounds are imprinted in our memory at an early age. Learning a new language as an adult is ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2016
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