Fruit flies have the uncanny ability to wake up from a months-long hibernation right when their food of choice—say, the fruit from apple or Hawthorn trees—is at its peak. They're active for a couple of weeks, eating and ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2020
0
49
An international study involving Monash physicists has cornered a new approach to measure consciousness, potentially changing our understanding complex neurological problems.
General Physics
May 25, 2020
5
1317
Quantitative biologists at CSHL have figured out how a fly brain learns to ignore overwhelmingly prevalent, mundane odors to focus on more important ones. It's an important step towards understanding how our senses work and ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 11, 2020
1
75
A team of researchers from France, Germany and Belgium has found evidence that neither nature nor nurture leads to personality differences—it is the result of nonheritable noise during brain development. In their paper ...
Scientists at the University of California San Diego have a much clearer idea thanks to the evolution of an advanced imaging system designed to record ultra-precise brain activities in flies.
Plants & Animals
Feb 4, 2020
0
117
New research from UC Riverside shows scientists may soon be able to prevent disease-spreading mosquitoes from maturing. Using the same gene-altering techniques, they may also be able help boost reproduction in beneficial ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 28, 2020
1
172
A quartet of researchers with PSL Research University, CNRS, has found that a peptide in male fruit fly semen somehow makes its way to the female fruit fly brain after copulation, resulting in improvements in long-term memory. ...
More than a century ago, early geneticists showed that the inheritance of a single mutation by fruit flies can change the insect's body color and simultaneously disrupt its mating behavior.
Evolution
Oct 15, 2019
0
26
When fruit flies are exposed to a high sugar diet, key metabolites associated with brain health become depleted, according to a University of Michigan study.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 6, 2019
1
97
Some research suggests that one reason people with obesity overeat is because they don't enjoy food—especially sweets—as much as lean people.
Cell & Microbiology
May 7, 2019
0
132
