| 单词 | fruit fly |
| 例句 | A cloud of fruit flies rose up in the air and settled again. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Like an architectural historian obsessed with only one building, Lewis had been studying the construction of fruit flies for nearly two decades. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In fact, just as one mouse or one fruit fly isn’t terribly useful for research, most individual cell lines and tissue samples aren’t worth anything on their own. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The fruit flies were more out of control than ever, thanks to the lemonade the boys had dribbled on the countertop. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z It was nothing like a fruit fly and wanted nothing to do with fruit flies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hemophilia—like white eyes in fruit flies—is a sex-linked genetic illness. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But naturally arising mutants—the bread and butter of fruit fly geneticists—were far too rare. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Morgan approached these questions by studying yet another model organism—fruit flies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But fifty dead fruit flies and two inchworms and a caterpillar? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z On top of having a weird smell and the attention span of a fruit fly, that day Markie rushed me at the front door with a buttload of disgusting questions. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But Morgan’s fruit fly genes did not always behave independently. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He shook the fruit bowl and noticed how few fruit flies took to the air. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Bean shaped and smaller than a speck of sand, the fruit fly embryo begins its life in a whir of activity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Tested on the fruit fly, the same organism Muller had used in his original work with X-rays, mustard gas also produced mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z United States scientists have had some encouraging early results with the melon fly and the oriental and Mediterranean fruit flies in laboratory tests in Hawaii and field tests on the remote island of Rota. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We’re supposed to do a report on germ line cell mutations in fruit flies instead. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z What it wanted was the fruit flies’ molasses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now other laboratories of the Department are taking up the problem, testing chemicals against stable flies, mosquitoes, boll weevils, and an assortment of fruit flies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “The Poet tells us that impatience belongs to small things—fleas, tadpoles, and fruit flies. You, my love, are ever so much more than a fruit fly.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A cloud of fruit flies rose into the air and then settled back down. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z There were dizzy bees and bow-tied fruit flies turning somersaults and humming in the air. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z From the bacteria in the sink to the fruit fly circling the bowl of bananas. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Between 1910 and 1912, Morgan and his students crossed thousands of fruit fly mutants with each other to create tens of thousands of flies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At Riverbank, he lived in a damp windmill, where he did experiments with fruit flies and African violets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the late 1930s, Beadle and Tatum reasoned that isolating the actual eye pigment of a fruit fly might solve the riddle of gene action. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Not bad, he thought, though he noticed a dead fruit fly floating on the top. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z I rush through the backyard we all hated because of relentless mosquitoes and fruit flies, then hop the fence. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Government scientists have developed an attractant called methyl-eugenol, which males of the oriental fruit fly and the melon fly find irresistible. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The surface was swimming with dead bugs: fruit flies, worms, and a soggy brown caterpillar. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Jessie was surprised how easy it was to catch the fruit flies that floated up from the bowl. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z It even affects fruit flies – it goes back to the primordial soup. One fan's mission to Lars 2012-06-02T22:01:47Z And if not damaged directly by the wine, any germs still alive from the fruit fly deposit will encounter the highly acidic fluids of the human stomach. A fruit fly has landed in your wine – is it OK to drink? 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z I put down a disturbing number of books without finishing them, but this is mostly because I have the attention span of a fruit fly, not because they are bad books. Alison Bechdel: By the Book 2012-07-26T14:36:01Z So he constructed a special sensor for the flybot to detect threats, then programmed the robot to avoid them by swerving the way a fruit fly would. Fruit flies inspire teen’s winning robot The three biologists who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology had absolutely no idea what might happen when they fed male fruit flies chemicals that they hoped would cause mutations in the flies’ sperm. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z There are many factors, Mr. Ali said, like the olive fruit fly, a pest that attacks olive trees from the coast inward. The Best Olive Oil in the World? This Village Thinks So. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z First of all, there are fruit flies, which are attracted to ripe, rotting, or decayed fruits and vegetables. How to get rid of gnats, once and for all 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z We’ve been uninhibited in studying fruit fly sex, but we have been inhibited in studying human sex. From duck vaginas to bumblebee sex: The amazing, overlooked science of genitals 2014-05-10T20:00:00Z The scientists achieved this with fruit flies and other insects but did not succeed with mosquitoes, which were too feeble after sterilisation to compete in the wild. Can GM mosquitoes rid the world of a major killer? 2012-07-14T23:05:51Z The coffee and doughnut chain shut the store down after finding “evidence of rodents, fruit flies, cockroaches and unapproved pest management systems,” the lawsuit claims. Dunkin' store faces lawsuit after viral video exposed army of mice 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The first time I unwrapped the cheesecloth to taste the brew, however, I noticed a fruit fly flit from the direction of the jar. How to make kombucha at home 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z But there are also lots of things that you can do with humans that you can’t do with fruit flies. From duck vaginas to bumblebee sex: The amazing, overlooked science of genitals 2014-05-10T20:00:00Z One caveat - I wouldn't do this when there are fruit flies about or you might infect your batch with "vinegar eels". Making (Bad) Vinegar at Home: A Critic’s Confession 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z First, there are fruit flies, which are attracted to overripe or rotting fruits and vegetables, so they're usually hovering around fruit bowls. How to get rid of gnats, once and for all 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Last year’s harvest was severely damaged by extreme heat, torrential rains and hailstorms, as well as a devastating fruit fly infestation. Italy’s Treasured Olive Oil, at the Source 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The wine the fruit fly entered was also chilled, which some food poisoning bacteria find shocks their metabolism so profoundly it stops them growing. A fruit fly has landed in your wine – is it OK to drink? 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z And that’s where I was when a fruit fly flew up my left nostril. Gene vs. the fruit fly 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z On the one hand, it’s not crazy, because you can’t do the same thing with a human as you can with a fruit fly. From duck vaginas to bumblebee sex: The amazing, overlooked science of genitals 2014-05-10T20:00:00Z When I sat down with the iPad, they clustered like fruit flies around a peach. Motherlode Blog: Putting Down the iPad So My Kids Can See Me Read 2011-10-12T16:43:52Z Dear Heloise: I just read your tip for getting rid of fruit flies. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: An age-old issue 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z I think in many ways we know more about the fruit fly than about our own sex lives. From duck vaginas to bumblebee sex: The amazing, overlooked science of genitals 2014-05-10T20:00:00Z The restaurant’s name refers to a popular cocktail served at Hart’s, called Mosca de la Fruta, or fruit fly, made with mezcal, orange liqueur and lime. O:N, From the Team Behind Her Name Is Han, Opens in NoMad 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The fruit fly is unlikely to change the taste of the wine, even if there are several of them. A fruit fly has landed in your wine – is it OK to drink? 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Came in handy one spring when the fruit flies got out of hand — sucked them right out of the air. I was a “male spinster” 2012-11-29T01:00:00Z Yip-Williams even tries experimental drugs that seem to work only in fruit flies. Review | ‘Live, friends. Just live,’ a writer urges us in a memoir published after her death 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “Thus, it is not surprising that animals from the nematode C. elegans to fruit flies and humans have evolved multiple mechanisms to detect ammonium/ammonia,” they wrote. Scientists suggest a sixth basic taste: ammonium chloride 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z The fruit fly, you realize, may have just deposited potentially lethal microbes in your wine, so you toss it in the sink and pour a fresh glass. A fruit fly has landed in your wine – is it OK to drink? 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Among those making an appearance: the Monarch butterfly, the nine-spotted ladybug, the Puritan tiger beetle, the Hawaiian hammer-headed fruit fly, the Mt. Can Art Help Save the Insect World? 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The little flies that frequently appear near unrefrigerated produce in your kitchen are probably fruit flies, which are sometimes called vinegar flies. How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z That amount of waste is the same whether you throw the bananas away immediately upon returning from the supermarket or let them brown and attract fruit flies next to the toaster. 40 percent of food in America ends up in the trash. Is nanopackaging the answer? 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z When Washington had one of its typical mid-December heat waves, fruit flies took over the room, according to Temple’s memoir “Flowers White House Style,” written with Stan Finegold. This year’s White House holiday decorations strike a homier note 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z You pour a chilled glass of your favorite sauvignon blanc and are about to take a sip when a fruit fly lands in it. A fruit fly has landed in your wine – is it OK to drink? 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z We watched humankind's underappreciated best friend, the fruit fly, dying a thousand helpful deaths in the hunt for a cure. Maps of the mind: The Lion's Face 2010-05-25T20:46:00Z In 2018, a group of French scientists covered a male fruit fly in pink dust before introducing him to a room full of virgin females. These 5 animals have culture. Here’s what they can reveal about our shared evolutionary experience 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z For the most part, scientists have studied aspects of procreation in space only in animals, including fruit flies, frogs, newts, geckos, aquatic crustaceans, quails, rats, mice and, intriguingly, rams. The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z The new study focused on answering this question by taking advantage of the similarity between humans and fruit flies. Obesity linked to neurodegeneration through insulin resistance 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z The article also explains how the researchers greatly reduced the progression of disease in worms and fruit flies and extended the lifespan of flies by introducing a protein into cells that removes methylation. Scientists tame biological trigger of deadly Huntington's disease 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z And by the late 1970s, the heyday of molecular biology and developmental genetics had arrived: fruit fly geneticists discovered Hox and other major genes that set up the fruit fly body plan. Small Collections of Cells Determine How a Body Takes Its Shape 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z In October, Mediterranean fruit flies were discovered in an area of Los Angeles. Fighting Fruit Flies With…Fruit Flies? 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The operation was kicked off after the discovery of three Mediterranean fruit flies, or medflies, last month. Millions of sterile fruit flies are being dropped on L.A. to fight an infestation 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z But the three Mediterranean fruit flies prompted officials to quarantine the produce of an entire Los Angeles neighborhood. Fruit Flies Are Invading Los Angeles. The Solution? More Fruit Flies. 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z "This is true for humans, and it is also true in fruit flies, which is a very useful model to study this protein modification," she continues. Researchers solve protein mystery 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Even back when Alfonso Martinez Arias was a young developmental biologist at the University of Cambridge in the 1980s, he had suspicions that not everything about fruit fly development could be explained by genes alone. Small Collections of Cells Determine How a Body Takes Its Shape 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The airplanes only drop male flies, and all of them have been treated so that they can’t help produce new fruit flies. Fighting Fruit Flies With…Fruit Flies? 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z “Nowhere in the world are fruit fly invasions as frequent, recurrent, persistent, continuous, contiguous, widespread, and taxonomically diverse as those that have occurred in California,” Carey said in an email. Millions of sterile fruit flies are being dropped on L.A. to fight an infestation 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z They had a plan to stop the spread: more fruit flies — millions of them. Fruit Flies Are Invading Los Angeles. The Solution? More Fruit Flies. 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z The role of NatC-mediated protection of specific proteins is evident both in human cells and in fruit fly. Researchers solve protein mystery 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z A team of researchers led by Leipzig University has gained new insights into the respiratory system of fruit flies -- the so-called tracheal system -- which could be important for future research into aneurysms. Defect in fruit fly respiratory system may provide insights into human aortic aneurysms 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z This means that even though they can mate with female fruit flies, the eggs produced will never grow or hatch. Fighting Fruit Flies With…Fruit Flies? 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s the first quarantine in the Western Hemisphere for the tau fruit fly, a serious pest with a wide host range that includes numerous fruits and vegetables. Millions of sterile fruit flies are being dropped on L.A. to fight an infestation 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Different strains of Wolbachia bacteria naturally infect a number of different animals worldwide, such as mosquitos, butterflies, and fruit flies. Bacteria can enhance host insect's fertility with implications for disease control 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Hawley's lab typically conducts research in fruit flies, yet the protein discovered in this study was not present in fruit flies and demanded a different research organism to continue. Why do some men not produce sperm? 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z They found that the cells in the fruit fly's tracheal system are connected to the extracellular matrix by the proteins Dumpy and Piopio. Defect in fruit fly respiratory system may provide insights into human aortic aneurysms 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The Mediterranean fruit fly, often known as the “Medfly”, is one of the most serious threats faced by farmers worldwide. Fighting Fruit Flies With…Fruit Flies? 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Skip forward 200 years, and the humble fruit fly, known better to geneticists as Drosophila melanogaster, is one of the most thoroughly studied animals on the planet. 200-year-old DNA helps map tiny fly's genetic course to new lands, modern times 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z They found that Wolbachia infection restored the fruit fly's fertility, enabling them to produce even more offspring than uninfected flies. Bacteria can enhance host insect's fertility with implications for disease control 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Similar to crickets and grasshoppers, fruit flies also use their wings to sing, but they extend and vibrate one wing at a time. Fruit fly serenade: Neuroscientists decode their tiny mating song 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Similar to the human circulatory system or lungs, the fruit fly's tracheal system consists of a network of tubes. Defect in fruit fly respiratory system may provide insights into human aortic aneurysms 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Mediterranean fruit flies were first found in California in 1975, but they really became a problem in the 1980s. Fighting Fruit Flies With…Fruit Flies? 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Lund University extracted and analyzed DNA from fruit flies housed in museum collections in Lund, Stockholm and Copenhagen. 200-year-old DNA helps map tiny fly's genetic course to new lands, modern times 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Russell focuses on Wolbachia because it and its fruit fly hosts are relatively easy to keep alive and reproduce in the lab. Bacteria can enhance host insect's fertility with implications for disease control 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z For Drosophila melanogaster, only the male fruit flies sing. Fruit fly serenade: Neuroscientists decode their tiny mating song 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Breeding female fruit flies face a difficult decision: do they mate with the male that has the best genes, or with the one whose genes best match their own? Genetics of attraction: Mate choice in fruit flies 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Three Mediterranean fruit flies were discovered in a Los Angeles neighborhood called Leimert Park in October. Fighting Fruit Flies With…Fruit Flies? 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z That means the genes of fruit flies may have been sequenced, catalogued and described more often than any other animal. 200-year-old DNA helps map tiny fly's genetic course to new lands, modern times 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Wolbachia and their fruit fly hosts offer a rare opportunity to understand how bacteria can change the DNA and biological processes of their host. Bacteria can enhance host insect's fertility with implications for disease control 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Murthy played a clip of the fruit fly serenade, amplified thousands of times: a series of pulses intermixed with more musical tones. Fruit fly serenade: Neuroscientists decode their tiny mating song 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a common model organism for studying sexual selection and evolution. Genetics of attraction: Mate choice in fruit flies 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z This approach helps fruit flies to reliably recognize different motion patterns -- the prerequisite for staying on track. Distributed workload in the fly brain 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, the researchers found the fruit flies collected in Sweden in the early 1800s were more genetically similar to 21st century flies than the Swedish samples from the 1930s. 200-year-old DNA helps map tiny fly's genetic course to new lands, modern times 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z The new results show that Wolbachia pipientis, which is native to fruit flies, has evolved to increase the fertility, and therefore the population size, of its fruit fly host. Bacteria can enhance host insect's fertility with implications for disease control 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Using SLEAP, the researchers showed that the key cause for the switch between solo mode and serenade mode was proximity -- how close together the male and female fruit flies were. Fruit fly serenade: Neuroscientists decode their tiny mating song 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Her team uses the fruit fly as a study model for Parkinson's disease and to dissect the mechanisms of dopamine neuron degeneration. Parkinson's: Are our neurons more vulnerable at night? 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Rajagopalan's experiments showed that, like Fitzgerald's brother-in-law, fruit flies can make decisions based on their expectations about the likelihood of a reward. Fruit flies offer clues to how brains make reward-based decisions 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z In earlier studies, Imhof and his team had discovered that well-nourished fruit flies live longer if their chameau levels are lowered through mutations. Sometimes beneficial, sometimes damaging: The double role of the enzyme chameau 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z To investigate, Russell and her colleagues bred fruit flies with various defects affecting Mei-P26, which caused them to have reduced fertility. Bacteria can enhance host insect's fertility with implications for disease control 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z The scientists made their findings in neurons that control muscles in Drosophila fruit flies. Individual neurons mix multiple RNA edits of key synapse protein, fly study finds 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z The practice can restore biodiversity including insects like the green lacewing, that in turn may help farmers control pests such as the olive fruit fly and the olive moth, Manzaneda said. In climate fight, Europe's olive, wine farmers turn to tech and tradition 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z But first, the team had to design a way to observe fruit fly decisions. Fruit flies offer clues to how brains make reward-based decisions 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z A team led by biologist Axel Imhof has discovered why an enzyme is important for the survival of fruit flies, even though it can shorten their lives under certain conditions. Sometimes beneficial, sometimes damaging: The double role of the enzyme chameau 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The Wolbachia rescue their host population through several strategies, including restoring fruit fly stem cells and ensuring that egg cells properly develop. Bacteria can enhance host insect's fertility with implications for disease control 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s about twice as large as its relatives—admittedly, only about the length of a fruit fly—the result of an ancient doubling of its genome. Stress turns tiny worm into a big-mouthed cannibal 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z But a machine with the needed complexity to elicit something resembling human consciousness—or even that of a fruit fly—remains an aspirational wish for the distant future. What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot? 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z When Vicki Losick got her Ph.D. and joined a fruit fly lab at the Carnegie Institution for Science in 2008, its head announced that he expected his postdocs to launch new fields of inquiry. Cells with extra genomes may help tissues respond to injuries—and species survive cataclysms 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Scientists have compiled many more nematode connectomes, as well as brain maps of a marine annelid worm, a tadpole, a maggot and an adult fruit fly. Worm Brains, Decoded like Never Before, Could Shed Light on Our Own Mind 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z Nearly everyone has fun on a carousel—including, possibly, fruit flies. Fruit flies may enjoy taking carousels for a spin 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z You, Ken and a small dog all face down with a handful of dried-up fruit flies and the occasional cockroach. A love letter to Weird Barbie 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s the first quarantine ever in the Western Hemisphere for the Tau fruit fly, which is native to Asia, agriculture officials said. Invasive fruit flies have been found near Los Angeles, prompting a produce quarantine 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z So, she and another postdoc, Don Fox, began stabbing fruit flies with a tiny needle, hoping to document stem cells coming to the rescue. Cells with extra genomes may help tissues respond to injuries—and species survive cataclysms 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Mosca notes the same strategies used in this study will likely help illuminate brain-behavior links in other model animals such as zebra fish or fruit flies. Worm Brains, Decoded like Never Before, Could Shed Light on Our Own Mind 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z The researchers altered the equivalent genes in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, which usually cannot reproduce asexually. ‘Virgin Birth’ Engineered into Female Animals for First Time 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Everybody wants to get inside a fruit fly's head. See an Amazingly Detailed Map of the Fruit Fly Brain 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z If fruit flies get out of control, they can hurt California’s produce exports in the national and world market, he said. Invasive fruit flies have been found near Los Angeles, prompting a produce quarantine 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z But it’s now clear, Losick says, that polyploidy “is widespread in the fruit fly and I think in our body as well.” Cells with extra genomes may help tissues respond to injuries—and species survive cataclysms 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z California agricultural officials have placed a 79-square-mile area in Los Angeles County under quarantine because of the presence of an invasive fruit fly. Invasive fruit fly outbreak prompts agricultural quarantine in Santa Clarita Valley 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z After altering various combinations of genes, the scientists hit on a combination that induced parthenogenesis in roughly 11% of female fruit flies. ‘Virgin Birth’ Engineered into Female Animals for First Time 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z These insects' simple brains are invaluable to neuroscientists studying information processing and task management, and a new, unprecedentedly detailed map of fruit fly brain connections now makes that easier. See an Amazingly Detailed Map of the Fruit Fly Brain 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z A swath of the Santa Clarita Valley is under a first-of-its-kind quarantine after the invasive and pestilent tau fruit fly was found in the area, officials announced this week. No fly zone: Swath of Santa Clarita Valley under quarantine due to invasive tau fruit fly 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z But Losick and Fox glimpsed another role in their study of the fruit fly wounds. Cells with extra genomes may help tissues respond to injuries—and species survive cataclysms 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z As detailed in a study published today in the journal Current Biology, scientists were able to identify a genetic cause for virgin birth in one species of fruit fly and turn it on in another. Fly-ing solo: scientists discover genetic on-switch for "virgin birth" in fruit flies 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z “They’re like the fruit flies of metaphysics,” says Sorensen, who also wasn’t involved in the study. Do We Actually ‘Hear’ Silence? 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z For decades scientists have mapped neurons by observing fruit flies with inserted genes that produce a yeast protein called Gal4 when neurons carry out certain processes. See an Amazingly Detailed Map of the Fruit Fly Brain 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z The action marks the first-ever tau fruit fly quarantine in the Western Hemisphere, state officials said. No fly zone: Swath of Santa Clarita Valley under quarantine due to invasive tau fruit fly 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z So, the pair investigated its fruit fly system further. Cells with extra genomes may help tissues respond to injuries—and species survive cataclysms 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z An estimated 76 percent of fruit flies can exhibit parthenogenesis, but as to why some can and some can't was a mystery. Fly-ing solo: scientists discover genetic on-switch for "virgin birth" in fruit flies 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z “Deliver bangers like he does and tour relentlessly” — he’s on the road playing stadiums in Europe as we speak — “and people will have the memory of a fruit fly,” said one seasoned executive. 'The Idol' is hot garbage. Will its stench cling to the Weeknd? 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z The mesh has already proved successful on fruit fly larvae in Minnesota, and with two species of mushroom coral in Hawaii and Australia. How to deep freeze an entire organ—and bring it back to life 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Native to Asia, the yellow-and-black tau fruit fly is a serious pest for plants — with a wide host range that includes numerous fruits and vegetables, as well as some native California plants, the department said. No fly zone: Swath of Santa Clarita Valley under quarantine due to invasive tau fruit fly 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z In fruit flies, some of the mammoth cells quickly plug the space left by puncture wounds, and because they have multiple copies of various genes, they can make extra proteins that speed healing. Cells with extra genomes may help tissues respond to injuries—and species survive cataclysms 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Dr. Alexis Sperling, a researcher at the University of Cambridge and first author of the paper, was curious if there was something genetic happening that allowed some fruit flies to reproduce without a partner. Fly-ing solo: scientists discover genetic on-switch for "virgin birth" in fruit flies 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Our analysis revealed at least reasonably strong evidence for this capacity in a number of taxa, including cockroaches and fruit flies. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Because other animals also experience physiological effects in the presence of their dead, identifying how this process works in fruit flies could shed light on how it operates in other species, including in people. Seeing dead fruit flies is bad for the health of fruit flies — and scientists have identified why 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z He’s still waiting to see this year’s first fruit flies, but they’ve been coming earlier each year to the farm’s roughly 35 acres of strawberries, raspberries and tomatoes, he said. To fight berry-busting fruit flies, researchers focus on sterilizing the bugs 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Dr. Gendron earned that spot by researching how living fruit flies respond to the sight of dead ones. These Flies Age Faster After Witnessing Death 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z To try and find an answer, Sperling and her colleagues sequenced the genomes of two types of Drosophila mercatorum fruit flies, one that needed males to reproduce and another that reproduces by parthenogenesis. Fly-ing solo: scientists discover genetic on-switch for "virgin birth" in fruit flies 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z In addition, we could develop remedies for a variety of human health disorders by studying their molecular genetic and neurobiological underpinnings in insects such as fruit flies. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Genetically manipulating fruit flies to lose their sense of smell makes them live longer. Seeing dead fruit flies is bad for the health of fruit flies — and scientists have identified why 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z They used mathematical modeling to show that if they released one modified fruit fly for every four that were not and did that every two weeks, they could collapse a population in about five months. To fight berry-busting fruit flies, researchers focus on sterilizing the bugs 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z They have also had to fend off an invasive fruit fly from Asia that was first detected in the U.S. about 15 years ago. Wild blueberry production takes a dip in the face of drought 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Once they identified the genes, they started trying to essentially turn it on in the fruit flies that they knew couldn't reproduce by parthenogenesis. Fly-ing solo: scientists discover genetic on-switch for "virgin birth" in fruit flies 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z For example, in humans, the chromosome number is 46, whereas in fruit flies, the chromosome number is eight. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z The effects of seeing dead fruit flies on the physiology of fruit flies resemble changes seen in other species. Seeing dead fruit flies is bad for the health of fruit flies — and scientists have identified why 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z In 1997, for example, scientists were able to generate extra eyes on fruit flies' antennae, wings and legs by manipulating a single gene. Mother Nature can't stop evolving eyes 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z In the lab, Dr. Ayala developed a new genetic species of the common fruit fly, whose super-fast reproduction is used in testing and developing potential cancer drugs and gene therapies in humans. Francisco Ayala, biologist who bridged science and faith, dies at 88 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z My team also uses fruit flies to identify modifier genes and then test how they influence disease in neurons from patients with FTD or ALS. How frontotemporal dementia, the syndrome affecting Bruce Willis, changes the brain 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Eye color in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, was the first X-linked trait to be identified. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z These neurons are the center of sensory information processing and motor coordination in fruit fly brains. Seeing dead fruit flies is bad for the health of fruit flies — and scientists have identified why 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z The berries are threatened by the spotted wing drosophila, a fruit fly from East Asia first detected in the United States in 2008. Maine blueberries vs. fly: US senator files bill to help 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Scientists at the BioInspired Institute study fruit flies to understand how their brains process information and honeybees to help prevent bleeding in patients. Animals inspire scientists to solve problems that humans face 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Even the neurons of fruit flies fire in the presence of certain cancerous cells. An ant’s sense of smell is so strong, it can sniff out cancer 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Through ADS-B data and additional research, he’s also found a plane in the L.A. area that drops sterile fruit flies to help reduce the fruit fly population, among other discoveries. Private jet travel isn’t so private after all. Some upset owners have had enough 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z I have used fruit flies, specifically Drosophila melanogaster, for more than 15 years to better understand how sensory perception affects aging. Seeing dead fruit flies is bad for the health of fruit flies — and scientists have identified why 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z They kept fruit flies a few degrees below their optimal temperature to simulate a moderate stress that these animals might encounter in the wild. Dietary Restriction Works in Lab Animals, but It Might Not Work in the Wild 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z They are fruit flies, but they eat leaves. While Other Insects Played, This Species Evolved the Blade 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z The fruit fly is now on foot, circumnavigating the top of my sake pitcher, then moving on to the rim of my cup, which has a chip in it. Restaurant review: A very sad lunch at Seattle’s Sugo Hand Roll Bar 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Chess has often been called the “fruit fly” of artificial intelligence because it’s the perfect subject for experimenting on. Perspective | How do we draw the line between sports cheaters and sports strivers? 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Recently my work has focused on the role the brain plays in aging, looking at how death perception, or when fruit flies perceive other dead fruit flies, affects their life span. Seeing dead fruit flies is bad for the health of fruit flies — and scientists have identified why 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z For example, scientists recently studied how fruit flies adapted to environmental changes when they were kept in mesh enclosures in a Pennsylvania peach orchard. Dietary Restriction Works in Lab Animals, but It Might Not Work in the Wild 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z He added that additional research would be needed to study whether the same candidate genes contributed to bristle evolution in other species of fruit flies. While Other Insects Played, This Species Evolved the Blade 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z A plump fruit fly is slowly circling the airspace above my place setting at Sugo Hand Roll Bar. Restaurant review: A very sad lunch at Seattle’s Sugo Hand Roll Bar 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Unlike laboratory animal subjects such as fruit flies and mice, companion dogs are affected by their owners’ environmental and social factors, such as secondhand cigarette smoke, lawn pesticides and access to health care. Will Your Dog Get Dementia? A Large New Study Offers Clues. 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The chromosomes depicted here were isolated from a fruit fly’s salivary gland, stained with dye, and visualized under a microscope. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Using a 1 percent level of significance, are the mean rates of egg selection for the three strains of fruit fly different? High School Statistics 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z In June, 100 fruit fly scientists gathered on the Greek island of Crete for their biennial meeting. The Mysterious Dance of the Cricket Embryos 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z He has shown fruit flies’ nervous systems can experience chronic pain, but he doubts that insects have the neurological systems to allow pain to register as a complex emotion. Bees may feel pain 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z If the initial population of fruit flies is 100 flies, how many flies are in the population after 10 days? Calculus, Volume 1 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Genomes of other model organisms, such as the mouse Mus musculus, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the nematode Caenorhabditis. elegans, and humans Homo sapiens are now known. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Similar cannibal morphs crop up in mites, fish, and even fruit flies, whose cannibalistic larvae are armed with 20% more teeth on their mouth hooks than their counterparts. Why some animals turn cannibal 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z From an evolutionary perspective, crickets offer more opportunities to learn about the last common insect ancestor; they hold more traits in common with other insects than fruit flies do. The Mysterious Dance of the Cricket Embryos 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Each cell of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has eight chromosomes. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z They began talking, and the professor told Dr. Forsberg that the Y chromosomes in fruit flies were more important than previously appreciated. As Y Chromosomes Vanish With Age, Heart Risks May Grow 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Hawaiian fruit fly-There are 500 species of fruit fly from one parent species. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Previously, the title of world’s largest bacteria belonged to a microbe the size of a fruit fly’s eye. Scientists baffled by discovery of bacteria that ought to be too big to function 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Vaccinia, the smallpox vaccine virus, can even infect fruit flies in addition to cows and people, notes David Evans, a poxvirus researcher at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Concern grows that human monkeypox outbreak will establish virus in animals outside Africa 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Thomas Hunt Morgan’s research on the Drosophila fruit fly showed that genes on the same chromosome are inherited together. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z The financial effect of invasive species - everything from cane toads, to lionfish, brown snakes, fruit flies, zebra muscles, and Japanese knotweed - is even higher. The sci-fi technology tackling malarial mosquitos 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Molecular studies of fruit fly, lancelet, human, and nematode show that homologous genes, when present, are strongly conserved. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Examples include chimpanzees known to scarf down noxious leaves to aid digestion and fruit flies that ingest alcohol to rid themselves of deadly parasites. Dolphins Rub against Mucus-Oozing Corals to Soothe Skin 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z In a study published in October 2021, for example, researchers examined a region of the fruit fly brain that helps the flies navigate during flight. Mapping the Brain to Understand the Mind 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Hox genes in fruit flies determine the identities of segments of a fly’s body. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z The stars of the book are its illustrated diagrams of minds, beginning with “Archie” the haloarcheon and progressing to “Captain Buzz” the fruit fly and eventually to frogs, monkeys and humans. Earth’s Sonic Diversity, Secret Bird Scents, Pandemic-Inspired Sci-Fi, and More 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Genes for the vitamin D receptor are absent in fruit fly but are present in the other species. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z “Sleep has now been discovered in many organisms, including invertebrates—fruit flies, worms, jellyfish, and hydras,” she says. Sharks save energy with daytime naps 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z And when researchers genetically tweaked yeast, fruit flies, and nematodes to greatly increase their ribosomes’ accuracy, the modified organisms lived up to 23% longer than normal. Glitchy protein production may hasten aging 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Some homologous Hox genes are found in almost all multicellular animals, from fruit flies to humans. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z The oversize bacterium is bigger than fruit flies and nematodes, common lab organisms that he and others sometimes infect with much smaller bacteria for their research. Largest bacterium ever discovered has unexpectedly complex cells 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z In the fruit fly there is a single cluster and the arrangement of genes in the genome is a map of the anterior to posterior body plan. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Scientists labored to fully sequence the genomes of fruit flies, worms and humans, but most avoided salamanders, whose sheer volume of DNA would have been a nightmare to handle. Junk DNA Deforms Salamander Bodies 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Daisuke Yamamoto, an entomologist at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, reported observing this phenomenon in fruit flies, too. Desert Beetles Rely on Oral Sex for Successful Mating 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Only Michoacan avocados were allowed because orchard owners there were able to certify under an agreement reached in 1997 that their fruit was free from pests like avocado seed weevils or fruit flies. Jalisco to join Michoacan in Mexico avocado exports to US 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z So, some sleep researchers have turned to invertebrates such as fruit flies and roundworms—and most recently to sponges and another early-evolving group, placozoans. ‘If it’s alive, it sleeps.’ Brainless creatures shed light on why we slumber 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Some of this work has been done using the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The brain of a fruit fly is the size of a poppy seed and about as easy to overlook. How to Map a Fly Brain in 20 Million Easy Steps 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z This could include releasing sterile males to mate with females, which are the ones that bite — an approach that has proved successful in cutting down fruit fly populations in the state. Climate change lets mosquitoes flourish — and feast — in Los Angeles 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z The largest versions of these winged devices, which the researchers sometimes refer to as “mesofliers” or “macrofliers,” are about two millimeters in length, roughly the size of a fruit fly. Winged Microchips Glide like Tree Seeds 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Several of these genes are involved with sleep in fruit flies, they noted. ‘If it’s alive, it sleeps.’ Brainless creatures shed light on why we slumber 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z In a 1981 study, male fruit flies were placed in enclosures with either virgin or inseminated females. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Of course, one could — and some have — asked why a fruit fly’s brain circuitry matters. How to Map a Fly Brain in 20 Million Easy Steps 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z How does a blob of cells organize itself into a fruit fly, or a panda? How the Cat Gets Its Stripes: It’s Genetics, Not a Folk Tale 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z In many ways, fruit flies resemble humans at a cellular and genetic level. How to Breed Fruit Flies 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Sehgal has found fruit flies carrying a mutation that reduces their sleep are less able to metabolize nitrogen, which means they may have trouble breaking down and rebuilding proteins and processing waste. ‘If it’s alive, it sleeps.’ Brainless creatures shed light on why we slumber 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z All fruit flies have the same genetic makeup, but express different patterns of genes under different conditions, which results in expression of certain genes for cold conditions and others for warm conditions. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Then, he and colleagues visited a bog near Vancouver, where they added fruit flies to 10 individual Triantha plants and, as a control, to a similar-size plant that is not carnivorous. This meat-eating plant is only a part-time killer 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z They look like fruit flies but lay their eggs on damp soil, not past-ripe produce. How to really, truly, finally get rid of fungus gnats for good: We asked the pros 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z And at Columbia, Dr. Montague is developing genetic tools that will allow researchers to manipulate cuttlefish genes, a practice that until recently was only possible with run-of-the-mill lab animals, like mice and fruit flies. Did a Cuttlefish Write This? 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z In February, Dr. Brooks received a message from Kevin Wei, a postdoctoral fellow working with fruit flies at the University of California, Berkeley. This Moth’s Name Is a Slur. Scientists Won’t Use It Anymore. 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z For example, in humans, the chromosome number is 46, while in fruit flies, it is eight. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z But it’s one thing to experiment with fruit flies and another thing when the research involves genotypes of potential pandemic pathogens and functions related to transmissibility or virulence in humans. Analysis | Fact-checking the Paul-Fauci flap over Wuhan lab funding 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Pax6 is a known regulator of eye development: expressing the fly version of Pax6 on the leg of a fruit fly will cause an eye to develop there. Scientists Grew Tiny Tear Glands in a Dish—Then Made Them Cry 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Nematodes and fruit flies are also very dissimilar to humans, she notes, but octopuses eclipse these fellow invertebrates in terms of complexity. An Octopus Could Be the Next Model Organism 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z "Trying to hold Trump accountable for his crimes is like trying to kill a fruit fly." 'The Daily Show' host Trevor Noah compares Donald Trump to O.J. Simpson after impeachment trial acquittal 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z In early embryos of fruit flies, the cell cycle is completed in about eight minutes. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z More than a decade ago, evolutionary biologist Karl Grieshop worked in a fruit fly lab in which bananas were a key part of the flies' diet. When scientists become allergic to their research 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Our brains know the difference between exercise sweat and fear sweat, and between a glass of wine that has recently contained a fruit fly and one that has not. What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Similar molecular corralling may underlie functions including memory in fruit flies, immune cells’ responses to pathogens, DNA silencing, transmission of nerve impulses across synapses, and reproduction of SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic coronavirus. Sloppy science or groundbreaking idea? Theory for how cells organize contents divides biologists 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Over a century of tweaking fruit flies and cataloging the results has made Drosophila the most well-characterized animal model we have. Fruit Flies Are Essential to Science. So Are the Workers Who Keep Them Alive. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Discoveries in fruit fly genetics can be applied to human genetics. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z A new system called PiVR—named after the low-cost Raspberry Pi computer that runs its software—creates working artificial environments for small animals such as zebra fish larvae and fruit flies. Fruit Flies Plug into the Matrix 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Other groups later showed lifespan improvements from AKG in fruit flies. Bodybuilding supplement promotes healthy aging and extends life span, at least in mice 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z “That’s a long time in the short life of a fruit fly,” he says. Inside the mind of an animal 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z It currently houses over 77,000 different fruit fly strains, most of which are in high demand. Fruit Flies Are Essential to Science. So Are the Workers Who Keep Them Alive. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z It was only after several years of carrying out crosses with the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that Thomas Hunt Morgan provided experimental evidence to support the Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Lab-reared fruit flies exposed to the same toxic air for 10 days exhibited similar symptoms. ‘Its body looked like a warzone.’ Air pollution could kill off critical honey bees in India 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z “The various installations were created from fluorescent microscopy images representing the visual system of the fruit fly brain,” Simard wrote in her statement. The Beautiful Things inside Your Head: Winners of the 10th Annual Art of Neuroscience Contest 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z She quickly discovered storing them in her unrefrigerated garage wasn’t an option, because of fruit flies. Farm to parking lot to table: The pandemic is inspiring creative efforts to get locally sourced food 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z “When I try and tell people what I do, the first thing they usually say is, ‘Why would you keep fruit flies alive? Fruit Flies Are Essential to Science. So Are the Workers Who Keep Them Alive. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The table below summarizes a particular allele frequency in laboratory strains of the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Distance is one problem, as are worries about fruit flies accompanying the imports. Eating Thai Fruit Demands Serious Effort but Delivers Sublime Reward 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The intricate details of the fruit fly visual system were made possible by first laminating the thin slices of different types of wood together, then hand cutting the result to mimic the microscope images. The Beautiful Things inside Your Head: Winners of the 10th Annual Art of Neuroscience Contest 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z When fruit flies endure sleeplessness, cells in their guts accumulate toxic molecules that break down their DNA. Daily briefing: Huge artificial plateau is the oldest Mayan monument ever found 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The tens of thousands of fruit fly types within the vials, though, are each magnificently different. Fruit Flies Are Essential to Science. So Are the Workers Who Keep Them Alive. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The wide use of DDT meant that fruit flies with DDT resistance were more evolutionarily fit than their counterparts without DDT resistance. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Pastor-Pareja was the only person allowed to enter his lab when the university shut down in mid-February, and he had no choice but to discard hundreds of transgenic fruit flies. Frozen cells and empty cages: researchers struggle to revive stalled experiments after the lockdown 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Back in the 10th grade, my biology class was assigned to crossbreed fruit flies. If you're not paying attention to late-night TV right now, you should 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Under the family name of DelFly, Mr de Croon's creation weighs less than 50g, and takes inspiration from the wing movement of fruit flies. The stealthy little drones that fly like insects 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z To most casual observers, fruit flies are little dots with wings that hang out near old bananas. Fruit Flies Are Essential to Science. So Are the Workers Who Keep Them Alive. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z In one model of animal evolution, the other superphylum, Protostomia, includes fruit fly and nematode. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z If left to breed for more than 20 days, fruit flies start to cross-breed between generations, resulting in a genetic cocktail that’s useless for experiments. Frozen cells and empty cages: researchers struggle to revive stalled experiments after the lockdown 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z But in whatever non-English medium ants and anteaters and termites and fruit flies and everything else use to communicate, there are things going on out there. All I need in life is this Facebook group where everyone pretends to be ants 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Bio-mechanics takes a contrasting approach to that of most drone designers courtesy of dragonflies, storks, fruit flies and of course, mules. The stealthy little drones that fly like insects 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z That research explores topics as diverse as protein synthesis in yeast and synapse formation in embryonic fruit flies. Female scientists allege discrimination, neglect of research on women at NIH’s child health institute 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The first step in creating the map was to slice sections of fruit fly brain into pieces just 20 microns thick, roughly a third the width of a human hair. Google publishes largest ever high-resolution map of brain connectivity 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Developmental biologist Romain Levayer at the Pasteur Institute in Paris noted a similar trend with the supplies needed for his fruit flies. Frozen cells and empty cages: researchers struggle to revive stalled experiments after the lockdown 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Janelia, on the other hand, was seeking help to analyze the massive trove of data generated by imaging the fruit fly brain. Largest Brain Wiring Diagram to Date Is Published 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Still, it may be that smaller insects, like fruit flies, don’t need to regulate their bodies in the same way. How Insects Cope When Blood Rushes to Their Heads 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The fruit flies woke up and jumped around. Tabula Rasa: Volume One 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z I did my PhD on fruit flies in a small, relatively new laboratory at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. What publishing as a lead author has taught me 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z In some regions, he says, yeast — used both in baking as well as to make fruit flies’ meals — was in short supply, spurring some Drosophila researchers to grow their own yeast. Frozen cells and empty cages: researchers struggle to revive stalled experiments after the lockdown 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The FlyEM group is now working on constructing a circuit diagram of the fruit fly’s full nervous system—which consists of the entire brain and nerve cord, a spinal cordlike structure in the insect. Largest Brain Wiring Diagram to Date Is Published 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z These microscopes, assembled on optical workbenches that dominate the small rooms in Keller’s lab, can record the cellular dynamics and neural activity of developing fruit flies and zebrafish for hours at a time. The microscope makers putting ever-larger biological samples under the spotlight 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z I took them downstairs to a janitorial closet in trays, a hundred and forty-four bottles in a tray—conservatively, three thousand fruit flies per tray. Tabula Rasa: Volume One 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Many species of insects are naturally infected by the bacterium, including the tiny fruit flies dancing around your kitchen. Bacterial allies make dengue fever cases dive 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Finally, his work generates hypotheses that should be tested in other species, because many properties of the fruit fly’s heading neurons are similar to those of mammalian head-direction cells. How a fly’s neural compass adapts to an ever-changing world 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z “People love dogs,” said Promislow, who normally studies aging in fruit flies. Old dogs, new tricks: 10,000 pets needed for science 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z After searching another fruit fly's genome and analyzing other evidence that the sequences were being translated, the group ended up with a more manageable figure of 401 short ORFs likely to yield microproteins. New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z When I was fourteen, a recurrent vision would enter my mind as I drowned fruit flies in the Guyot basement. Tabula Rasa: Volume One 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z A new type of data collection focused on genetic mutants of a single model species5,6, such as the fruit fly. Data — from objects to assets 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z They were able to introduce these mutations into fruit flies, and suddenly they were able to eat milkweed, too. These Butterflies Evolved to Eat Poison. How Could That Have Happened? 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “No one has ever come up to me and said, ‘Oh my goodness, I just love fruit flies.’” Old dogs, new tricks: 10,000 pets needed for science 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Yet there is a fruit fly in the ointment. How science has shifted our sense of identity 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z To be sure, I was still in the up phase of growing up, but, while the fruit flies went on dying, the spiritual concept did not. Tabula Rasa: Volume One 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z In the wild, fruit flies eat yeast that’s found, for example, on rotting fruit. How Monarch Butterflies Evolved to Eat a Poisonous Plant 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z His team also studied what happened when the fruit fly had just a single copy of the ion pump gene with either one, two, or three mutations. How the monarch butterfly evolved its resistance to toxic milkweed 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z I let one fruit sculpture decay for quite a while and one night I came home to my apartment, opened the door, and this cloud took off – it was thousands of fruit flies. Klaus Enrique's best photograph: a Donald Trump mask made from a piglet 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Dr. Davis’s studies in fruit flies indicate that the neurotransmitter dopamine is involved in both forming and forgetting memories. Scientists Identify Neurons That Help the Brain Forget 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z I killed the fruit flies for Kenneth Cooper, whose lab was up on the second floor, where he and his wife, Ruth, geneticists, raised them in half-pint glass milk bottles. Tabula Rasa: Volume One 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The work, reported in Nature, showed that all three mutations individually increased the fruit flies’ chances of surviving the dangerous diet. How Monarch Butterflies Evolved to Eat a Poisonous Plant 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z They then tried to replay the tape of evolution by making combinations of those changes in fruit flies using the gene-editing tool CRISPR. How the monarch butterfly evolved its resistance to toxic milkweed 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Light influences various behaviours in insects, and fruit flies serve as a model in which to study the mechanisms underlying this effect. Flies’ colour preferences depend on the time of day 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Even a fruit fly, an organism we consider “simple” as compared with ourselves, is vastly complex. Test Pilot Geese, Planetary Wrecking Balls and Super AI Vision: The Week’s Best Science GIFs 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Writing in Nature, Bailles et al.1 report a previously unknown aspect of how cells internalize, as revealed by studies of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics and mechanics combine to guide the embryonic gut 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The last mutation to show up in the monarch lineage is the one that confers the greatest resistance to cardenolides, based on the fruit fly results. How Monarch Butterflies Evolved to Eat a Poisonous Plant 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z A single mutation predicted to have arisen in the monarch’s ancestor made the fruit fly only a little resistant to the toxins in milkweed. How the monarch butterfly evolved its resistance to toxic milkweed 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z This pathway was originally identified in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster3,4, and it comprises a signalling cascade that controls cell proliferation and organ size. Cancer-cell death ironed out 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z They stumbled on one stretch of DNA that appears across a developing fruit fly's body and that all of its eight Hox genes regulate. Test Pilot Geese, Planetary Wrecking Balls and Super AI Vision: The Week’s Best Science GIFs 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z It began with fruit flies, said Mark Frye, a professor of integrative biology and physiology at the University of California Los Angeles. How do mosquitoes track you? Researchers used a tiny flight simulator, cut into their brains to find out 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Mankin travels around the world with collaborators to remote locations; this July, he’s headed to the cloud forest of Ecuador to study fruit flies. Our Disabilities Have Made Us Better Scientists 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z But when that change was combined with a second one, the fruit fly was far better protected, Whiteman and his colleagues report today in Nature. How the monarch butterfly evolved its resistance to toxic milkweed 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z In tests of two drives inserted into fruit flies, for example, genetic variants conferring resistance formed frequently2. Self-destructing mosquitoes and sterilized rodents: the promise of gene drives 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Efforts are also underway to map the 100,000 neurons in the fruit fly connectome, and all of the connections in a cubic millimeter of a mouse brain. Research into worms’ central nervous system could bring insight into mental health disorders 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z By switching fruit flies' sensory neurons on and off with light, scientists were able to create the sensation of sweet or bitter tastes. Scientists Fool Flies with 'Virtual Tastes' 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z The fruit fly program apparently was resumed as a 10-year pause. $9M to quarantine fruit flies? Anti-government waste group exposes billions in pork-barrel spending 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z And when they added the third mutation, the fruit fly thrived on milkweed as well as monarchs. How the monarch butterfly evolved its resistance to toxic milkweed 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z They were like fruit flies hovering over an apple covered by plastic wrap, unable to reach their target. UCLA wants to put the finishing touches on an improved pass rush 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Dr. Brenner decided to approach the brain, but he realized he needed a simpler animal to study than the fruit fly, a standard organism used in laboratories. Sydney Brenner, a Decipherer of the Genetic Code, Is Dead at 92 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Now, however, scientists who repeatedly disturbed the sleep of more than a thousand fruit flies are reporting that less slumber may be necessary for sustaining life than previously thought, at least in one species. Sleepless Flies Lived Long Lives. Why Not Us? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z As the tree splits, fruit flies, leeches and squid arise on one side. Inside the grand and sometimes slimy plan to turn octopuses into lab animals 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z A solitary male Queensland fly was collected from a fruit fly surveillance trap and formally identified on Wednesday, the Ministry of Primary Industries said in a statement. New Zealand finds fruit fly that could threaten crops, ramps up... 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Yet some fruit flies almost never nod off, according to a new study, suggesting that at least in some animals, sleep may not be all that necessary. Scientists say every animal needs sleep. These fruit flies didn’t get the memo 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z At the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, for instance, researchers are working to map every neuron and synapse in the Drosophila fruit fly. Technologies to watch in 2019 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z It looked at only a single strain of fruit fly, said Dragana Rogulja, a professor at Harvard who studies sleep using fruit flies. Sleepless Flies Lived Long Lives. Why Not Us? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Although SMA does not exist naturally in any other species besides humans, researchers could now give animals the disease artificially, and they studied how it developed in mice, pigs, fruit flies and zebra fish. They said I'd go blind. Now gene therapy has changed that 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z This was the second Queensland fruit fly found in the region in the past week, with the first discovered on Feb. 14. New Zealand finds fruit fly that could threaten crops, ramps up... 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z In the new study, researchers were observing Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies in the lab when they noticed a very large distribution in sleep duration. Scientists say every animal needs sleep. These fruit flies didn’t get the memo 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The hope was that a micro-ecosystem would form, in which the plants would provide oxygen to the fruit flies, which would feed on the yeast and produce the carbon dioxide required for photosynthesis. First green leaf on moon dies as temperatures plummet 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The compound eyes of the common fruit fly are normally brick red. To halt brain diseases, drugs take aim at protein traffic jams that kill neurons 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The Chinese Moon lander was carrying among its cargo soil containing cotton and potato seeds, yeast and fruit fly eggs. China's cotton seeds sprout on Moon 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The minister cut short a visit to the UAE and Egypt after the second fruit fly was detected. New Zealand finds fruit fly that could threaten crops, ramps up... 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z He cited similar evidence for hydra and fruit flies. The gluey tentacles of comb jellies may have revealed when nerve cells first evolved 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z But Kreuze, who is a veterinarian, captured the praying mantises using a box and an envelope, and she’s feeding them fruit flies. Christmas tree insect stowaways find kind-hearted hostess 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Other items included in a mini-biosphere include cotton, rapeseed, potato, fruit fly and yeast. 'One giant leap': China's Chang'e 4 rover Jade Rabbit 2 sets off on moon mission 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z There is an old saying that game-playing is the Drosophila of A.I.: as the fruit fly is to biologists, so games like Go and chess are to computer scientists studying the mechanisms of intelligence. How the Artificial Intelligence Program AlphaZero Mastered Its Games 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z To Harris, even a fruit fly pirouetting in his cell is a miracle. He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z ANKLE2 is involved in brain development, and when the researchers injected excess ANKLE2 into fruit flies infected with Zika, their brains developed normally compared with infected flies that didn’t receive the injections. Cell-jacking proteins could be the key to cracking Zika and dengue 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z This agile robot, created by researchers in Delft, the Netherlands, maneuvers using passive aerodynamics to mimic the sliding motion a fruit fly makes when avoiding swatting hands. Our favorite Science photos of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Curiosity piqued, I call neurobiologist Martin Göpfert at the University of Göttingen in Germany, who studies hearing in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Awesome Ears: The Weird World of Insect Hearing 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z So researchers set up a series of experiments in which one “observer” female fruit fly watched a “demonstrator” fly pick between two males that differed only in their color—pink or green. Even fruit flies succumb to cultural dating pressures 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Finally, by adapting robotic equipment from a fruit fly lab, they assembled a moveable platform with two high-resolution cameras. New tracking system could show—at last—how pesticides are harming bee colonies 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Stocks of Drosophila fruit flies for research were destroyed, and Soviet geneticists were fired, imprisoned, exiled or executed. The covert politics of cold-war science 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z An increase in the fruit fly population in at least one Virginia county has caused an issue for homeowners. Virginia residents complain of boom in fruit fly population 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In mosquitoes and fruit flies, sound causes fine antennal hairs to quiver. Awesome Ears: The Weird World of Insect Hearing 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The fruit fly has a part to play because it has many genes which are similar to those in Alzheimer's disease in humans. Can fruit flies help us crack dementia? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The authors identify a bacterial enzyme that mediates this effect, and establish aspects of the mechanism by which the fruit fly responds to the bacterium. Gut microbes alter the walking activity of fruit flies 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z It is a step beyond the projects of most neuroscientists, like understanding the brain of a fruit fly or exploring the particulars of human sight. Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Earlier versions of the microscope were able to analyze zebrafish and fruit fly embryos, but mouse embryos are much more difficult. This is the most detailed view ever of a developing mouse 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z In experiments using fruit flies they found a gene, later given the name “period”, whose activity appeared to reliably rise and fall on a 24-hour cycle. Sleep: how much do we really need? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The humble fruit fly could help scientists unlock the secrets of Alzheimer's disease. Can fruit flies help us crack dementia? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Figure 1 | A gut bacterium affects walking activity in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Gut microbes alter the walking activity of fruit flies 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, colleague, Dr Nicholas Priest is teaching children the basics of evolution through his work on fruit flies. Quiz: Test your knowledge of evolution 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, there is a gradient of activity of the kinase enzyme Aurora B that is highest near the spindle in the centre of a dividing cell9. A core problem in nuclear assembly 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z There is a purely scientific application for the DelFly that includes studying and replicating insect flight dynamics and high-agility maneuvers, like the ones that fruit flies use to evade predators or humans. The DelFly Nimble robot can fly like a real insect 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Thanks to studies such as those by geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan on fruit flies, researchers were starting to understand heredity in terms of the transmission of genes, envisaged as large molecules arranged on chromosomes. Schrödinger’s cat among biology’s pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life? 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Work remains to be done to fill in the gaps in explaining how xylose isomerase affects the level of trehalose in the fruit fly and the activity of octopamine-producing neurons in the brain. Gut microbes alter the walking activity of fruit flies 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z They even tested their membrane’s ability to trap living creatures like fruit flies. This improbable membrane can trap flies in a jar—and odor in a toilet 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The 100,000-neuron fruit fly brain is elementary compared with the roughly 100 billion neurons in our own skulls. In a ‘tour de force,’ researchers image an entire fly brain in minute detail 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z A number of invertebrates, including worms, mollusks and fruit flies also use this ability. Our cellphone addiction is turning wireless tech into an invisible weapon that’s destroying wil... 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z In a paper in Nature, Seeholzer et al.1 compare the circuits that control courtship in males in two closely related species of fruit fly that behave differently when exposed to a particular pheromone. Neural circuit evolved to process pheromone differently in two species of fruit fly 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z This bacterium is not specialized to exist only in the fruit fly gut. Gut microbes alter the walking activity of fruit flies 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z But there may be a respite, according to research on lab animals such as fruit flies and nematodes. Once you hit this age, aging appears to stop 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z He studies fruit flies, but he is a champion of both sophistication in insect brains, and of caution in judging how far that sophistication goes. Do Bees Know Nothing? 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Even though the cells of a blue whale and of a fruit fly are roughly the same size, the whale’s cell has a lower metabolic rate. Too Small for Big Muscles, Tiny Animals Use Springs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z While wandering on a rotten apple, a male fruit fly is likely to encounter a variety of other flies, only a few of which will be females of the same species. Neural circuit evolved to process pheromone differently in two species of fruit fly 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The compounds may also play a role in aggression in other animals—indeed, they’ve already been shown to do so in fruit flies and mice. What turns bees into killer bees? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Mining research from the molecular level to the cognitive, they examine emotions as biological and reflective of evolved adaptations in species as varied as rodents, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and Homo sapiens. A new science of emotions, the trouble with polio eradication, and history writ large: Books in brief 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Oriental fruit flies lay their eggs in over 430 different fruits, vegetables and nuts. Florida: Oriental fruit flies found in farmlands near Miami 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z A drug called rapamycin, that blocks the signals of one metabolic pathway, extends life in different species from yeast, worms and fruit flies to mice. The Thing Inside Your Cells That Might Determine How Long You Live 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z For instance, two sister species of fruit fly — Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans — are often found on the same fruits. Neural circuit evolved to process pheromone differently in two species of fruit fly 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Scientists have tried a gene drive approach in fruit flies before. Can a genetic weapon combat one of the world’s major crop destroyers? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z On a recent Tuesday in Darrington, the room was full of sundews, which eat fruit flies. Everett woman’s business is all about bug-eating plants 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Strokos Gourmet Deli has fired the exterminator responsible for the 46 live fruit flies a health inspector observed on a recent visit. The Judge Will Hear Your 223,000 Excuses Now 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The fat cells also produced an antimicrobial substance that may help stave off infection as the fruit flies heal. Inside Wounded Flies, Fat Cells Race to the Rescue 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Figure 1 | Changes in the activity of a courtship-promoting neural circuit. a, Female fruit flies of the species Drosophila melanogaster produce the pheromone 7,11-HD. Neural circuit evolved to process pheromone differently in two species of fruit fly 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The spotted wing fruit fly is one of the world’s major crop destroyers. Can a genetic weapon combat one of the world’s major crop destroyers? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Tracking systems also exist for creatures such as fruit flies and zebrafish. The mazes with minds of their own 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Stills from a film about the development of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, by artist Helen Pynor.Credit: How poets and filmmakers construe complexity at the Crick Institute 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z “It was more a study of fruit flies and mice, not humans.” Arno Motulsky, a founder of medical genetics, dies at 94 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z He said he would like to see what the dye measures in mitochondria in organisms that do not regulate body temperature like we do, such as yeast, fruit flies or worms. A bizarre find: Tiny powerhouses in your cells run at 122 degrees 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z You can put a Venus flytrap to sleep as easily as the fruit fly hovering above it. Plants, Like People, Succumb to Anesthesia [Video] 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z This week, Maselko is due to discuss the team’s progress towards engineering a synthetic species of fruit fly, using a developmental gene called wingless as a poison. Synthetic Species Designed to Shun Sex with Wild Organisms 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z For a long time, these types of experiments were only done on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Growing wings on beetle abdomens provides another clue in the mystery of where insect wings come from 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z To do this, we identified genes in Daphnia that are similar to two genes, known as period and clock, in an organism that serves as a circadian model system: Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly. Can Road Salt and Other Pollutants Disrupt Our Circadian Rhythms? 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z A few years ago, a neuroscientist named Anthony Leonardo invented the device to record the activity of dragonflies’ brain cells as they hunt fruit flies. Micro-Revolutions 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Mechanisms of life span extension by rapamycin in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. RNA polymerase III limits longevity downstream of TORC1 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z In addition to the four incised onto stamps, the insect rogues’ gallery includes the red imported fire ant, the Mediterranean fruit fly and the Formosan subterranean termite. Review | See a stink bug that’s inches long at a National Zoo show all about insects 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Every organism previously studied—from humans to hamsters to fruit flies to bacteria—more or less follow the 24-hour day/night cycle. Meet the Spiders That Completely Defy What We Know as Jet Lag 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, showed that the idea could really work by spreading a gene in fruit flies reared in the lab. ‘Gene Drives’ Are Too Risky for Field Trials, Scientists Say 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The team also found traces of ancient grape pollen, starch from grape wine and remains from Neolithic fruit flies. Wine From Prehistoric Georgia With an 8,000-Year-Old Vintage 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Roughly 47 families of harmless bugs showed up in most of the houses, including silverfish, book lice, fruit flies, and ladybugs. Which room of your house has the most bugs? 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Computer scientists borrowed insights from the fruit fly brain to create a more accurate search algorithm. Insect Brain System Knows What You Want 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z When fruit flies smell something for the first time, 50 neurons fire in a unique combination. We can learn from fruit fly brains to improve our search algorithms 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Stranger still, in organisms such as fruit flies and many plants, it is the father that destroys most of his own mitochondria during production of sperm. It's Mostly Mothers Who Pass on Mitochondria 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z But other insects, like fruit flies, also seem dainty. How Mosquitoes Use Stealth to Steal Your Blood 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Pursuing this hypothesis, molecular neuroscientist Adrian Isaacs and his colleagues at University College London created transgenic fruit flies to test whether these aggregates caused disease. Genetics: The hexanucleotide hex : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z As their name suggests, fruit flies like to eat fruit – particularly the ripening variety – and appear in summer to settle on apples, pears and sweet drinks. Six Nobel prizes – what’s the fascination with the fruit fly? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z The key to better computer algorithms might be found in the brains of fruit flies, researchers say. We can learn from fruit fly brains to improve our search algorithms 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Using fruit flies, the team identified a “period” gene, which encodes a protein within the cell during the night which then degrades during the day, in an endless feedback cycle. 'Western society is chronically sleep deprived': the importance of the body's clock 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Not by studying humans — the “early birds” and “night owls” among us — but by studying the humble and ubiquitous fruit fly. Opinion | Another Nobel Prize for the Fruit Fly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Scientists offer help to labs hit by Harvey, even tending to their fruit flies Nobel in physiology, medicine awarded to three Americans for discovery of ‘clock genes’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Crucially, this work was done largely by experimenting on fruit flies. Six Nobel prizes – what’s the fascination with the fruit fly? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z The genetic basis for a daily physiological cycle was first discovered in fruit flies in the 1970s. Timing is everything: U.S. trio earns Nobel for work on the body’s biological clock 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z All three winners are American, and all three based their work on fruit flies. Three scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering genes that regulate the body’s clock 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Learning about human health from fruit flies may sound like a stretch — indeed, Sarah Palin mocked it during the 2008 presidential campaign — but it exemplifies a type of scientific inquiry called “basic research.” Opinion | Another Nobel Prize for the Fruit Fly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Starting in the 1980s, the award-winning researchers specifically identified the underlying mechanisms that control fruit flies’ internal 24-hour cycles. Medicine Nobel Prize Goes to Circadian Rhythm Researchers 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z “I am very pleased for the fruit fly,” he replied. Six Nobel prizes – what’s the fascination with the fruit fly? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Between them, studying mutated fruit flies, they put together an explanation of what is going on at a molecular level. A Nobel prize for medicine for the understanding of body clocks 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Beginning in the 1980s, the trio identified a gene in fruit flies, period, that encodes a protein that builds up each night, only to be broken down the following day. Medicine Nobel awarded for work on circadian clocks 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z By examining the internal workings of fruit flies, the three helped determine that the gene they were analyzing encoded a protein that accumulated in a cell at night, and then degraded during the day. Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z In her "fly lab" at Cambridge University, Dr Paloma Gonzales-Bellido demonstrates the killer flies' hunting behaviour by releasing fruit fly prey into a special filming box with a female killer fly. Why is it so hard to swat a fly? 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z And there are no prizes for guessing where neurexins were first identified: in fruit flies. Six Nobel prizes – what’s the fascination with the fruit fly? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z In another experiment, fruit flies flew around a virtual black cylinder just as they flew around a real cylinder placed in the arena. What we can learn from immersing mice, fruit flies, and zebrafish in VR 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, we watch the same fruit flies buzz around our beers instead of discussing pithy and insightful questions about the research that we’re pursuing. Here’s how you can get rid of fruit flies, and why scientists are so fond of them 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z For Desplan, his was a more pragmatic affinity. He has worked with insects as varied as fruit flies, wasps and butterflies. Scientists create the first mutant ants 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Since McClintock's breakthrough, researchers have identified different classes of transposable elements in the genomes of every organism in which they have sought them, ranging from fruit flies to polar bears. Medicine's Movable Feast: What Jumping Genes Can Teach Us about Treating Disease 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z However, the fruit fly possesses other key features that impress scientists. Six Nobel prizes – what’s the fascination with the fruit fly? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Researchers tested the system on mice, fruit flies, and zebrafish, and found that the animals reacted to the virtual objects and environments as they would to real ones. What we can learn from immersing mice, fruit flies, and zebrafish in VR 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Ironically, as I type this, there is literally a fruit fly — D. melanogaster — walking the lip of my coffee cup. Here’s how you can get rid of fruit flies, and why scientists are so fond of them 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z For more than 80 years, America refused to import Mexican avocados on the grounds that the fruit was infested with fruit flies and other bugs. Five times food fights have had an impact on trade talks - BBC News 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Scannella joked that he calls Triceratops “the fruit flies” of paleontology. Museum of Rockies’ paleontologist making dreams come true 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Today, fruit flies are a major undertaking at research centres. Six Nobel prizes – what’s the fascination with the fruit fly? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z The rocket is to lift a Dragon capsule with nearly 6,000 pounds of supplies, equipment and experiments including the fruit flies and mice. Fruit Flies and Mice to Get New Home on Space Station, at Least Temporarily 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, fruit flies are headed up inside the Dragon to study how the heart responds to microgravity. Watch SpaceX launch its first used Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Other recent studies in mice, yeast and fruit flies by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine suggest that suppressing a certain protein called ataxin-2 may foster resistance to A.L.S. A New Drug for A.L.S., but the Diagnosis Remains Dire 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Apple maggots, on the other hand, are fruit flies. Bag your apples to keep maggots and codling moths away 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “Only one or two are involved on research on insects themselves. That shows you the usefulness of fruit fly research to biological research in general and to understanding how the human body works in particular.” Six Nobel prizes – what’s the fascination with the fruit fly? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z On the next flight of cargo to the space station will be a multitude of fruit flies. Freeze-Dried Mouse Sperm Survives Trip in Space 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The fruit fly, for example, with its rapid reproduction, helped scientists understand genetics; the squid, with its peculiarly gigantic axon fibers, allowed scientists to examine the workings of a single nerve cell. When the Lab Rat Is a Snake 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Studies of fruit fly embryos led to drugs to treat skin cancer. Opinion | America’s ‘Miracle Machine’ is in desperate need of, well, a miracle 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z They are, judging by studies of social wasps and fruit flies. Opinion | Before you put that fennel and garlic-scented chicken leg in your mouth, read this 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Though fruit flies and gnats aren’t closely related scientifically — flies are of the family Drosophilidae, gnats are Sciaridae — both are small, winged, black and irritating to find flying around your house. All that rain means L.A. is being swarmed by bugs 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z And bees are something else altogether with nearly a million brain cells, compared with about 250,000 in the fruit fly. Bumblebees Demonstrate the Power of Insect Brains 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z But the simulations also showed that the typical tripod gait was still the best way for fruit flies and cockroaches to maneuver over uneven surfaces and climb—good news for anyone worried about fast-evolving bugs. Special gait helps this six-legged robot outpace insects 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The team examined the effect of increased ambient temperature rise on two populations of fruit flies: one from Spain and another from Sweden. Warming world harming insects' reproduction, says study - BBC News 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Federal authorities say the presence of Mediterranean fruit flies, also known as MedFly, was detected during a Dec. 14 inspection of 105,000 crates of clementines at the port in Camden, New Jersey. Destructive crop pest found in shipment at US port 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z The little black bugs that look like fruit flies are most likely fungus gnats, Sun said. All that rain means L.A. is being swarmed by bugs 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z David Anderson at Caltech, who studies emotionlike states in fruit flies, declines to call their brains simple, preferring a description along the lines of “more compact nervous systems.” Bumblebees Demonstrate the Power of Insect Brains 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Sure enough, when the scientists applied the changes to a fruit fly–like robot, it was 25% faster than another robot using a tripod gait, they report today in Nature Communications. Special gait helps this six-legged robot outpace insects 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Federal authorities say the presence of Mediterranean fruit flies, also known as MedFly, was detected during the routine inspection of 105,000 crates of clementines from Morocco on Dec. 14. Destructive pest found in shipment at Port of Philadelphia 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z It is involved in things as diverse as setting off breast cancer in mice and helping orchestrate the body plan of fruit flies. $25 Million in Breakthrough Prizes Given in Science and Math 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Later experiments with other labs were successful in saving the neurons of fruit flies and rats. Susan Lindquist, Scientist Who Made Genetic Discoveries Using Yeast, Dies at 67 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z “This was a monumental step in our study of fruit flies.” A gory tale behind the origin of ‘Halloween genes’ 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Texas and California also release irradiated fruit flies. Florida hopes quarantine and irradiated flies stop screwworm 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z In another study, this time at Oxford, it was found that fruit flies are capable of what might be termed thoughtful deliberation. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Although I remember how my daughter brought a jar of fruit flies from school so that they wouldn't die at school during the vacation; regrettably they still died at home... Second Thoughts of an Animal Researcher 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z “She told me about this cool phenomenon in fruit flies where you can see puffs on salivary gland chromosomes in response to heat,” Dr. Lindquist told the magazine The Scientist in January. Susan Lindquist, Scientist Who Made Genetic Discoveries Using Yeast, Dies at 67 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Reed’s lab is currently involved in gene drive research on fruit flies, with plans to begin moving forward with mosquitoes next. This new gene technology could wipe out entire species — to save others 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Dr. Bolduc is known as the “fly guy” at University of Alberta because of the more than 300,000 Drosophila, or fruit flies, in his lab. Eating Fruit While Pregnant May Boost Your Baby’s Intelligence 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z We go out to lunch and talk fruit flies. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z The field of evolutionary developmental biology — evo-devo — is full of such creations: from mice with longer, bat-like limbs to fruit flies with torsos segmented like beetles’. CRISPR helps evo-devo scientists to unpick the origins of adaptions 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Instead of the usual suspects, like fruit flies, mice and human cell cultures, Dr. Browne is using comb jellies to study biological processes, like how certain proteins help stem cells proliferate and stay alive. Growing Comb Jellies in the Lab Like Sea-Monkeys 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Today the company occupies a 45,000-square-foot site, where workers manufacture nontoxic traps for yellow jackets, fruit flies, bedbugs and a host of other insect pests. Woodinville firm builds death trap for mosquitoes that spread Zika 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z To test long-term memory, the same choices were given to them a day later, an extensive period in the monthlong life of a fruit fly. Eating Fruit While Pregnant May Boost Your Baby’s Intelligence 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z For instance, we know that fruit flies have a kind of built-in compass in their brains that enables a sense of direction. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z He and his colleagues outlined the basics of this machinery in fruit fly brains in 2014. A molecule called ‘Sandman’ could help solve the ‘mystery of sleep’ 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The award will support the work of assistant professor Timothy A. Evans, who will study the development of nerve connections in the nervous system of fruit flies. Arkansas neurobiologist gets $440k grant for gene research 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z There are two bone deliveries per week for the carnivores and big cats, weekly deliveries of ants and the California condors’ beloved cow spleens, and shipments of live termites and fruit flies. Spend a day behind the scenes at the San Diego Zoo as it turns 100 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Dr. Bolduc exposed the fruit flies in a tube to two scents, one of which was accompanied by a mild shock from an electrical grid under their feet. Eating Fruit While Pregnant May Boost Your Baby’s Intelligence 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In a series of rooms in the Fly Facility of the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University, around 5m fruit flies are kept in test tubes at any given time. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z But when dopamine was released, it moved to the cell's exterior, causing the entire dFB complex to short circuit and waking the fruit flies up. A molecule called ‘Sandman’ could help solve the ‘mystery of sleep’ 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Evans will focus his research on the gene found in fruit flies known as robo2. Arkansas neurobiologist gets $440k grant for gene research 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z In fruit flies and mice, the mismatch between sweet taste and fewer calories sends the body into "feed me" mode, the journal Cell Metabolism reports. Could artificial sweeteners make people more hungry? - BBC News 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z I think these are all the symptoms of the social media and selfie age we live in where everyone has the attention span and patience a fruit fly, maybe even less. Behind the Gold Curtain of Donald Trump’s Résumé 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z O’Kane looks quite glum at the prospect and argues that there have been questions over the future of fruit fly research ever since he started his lab 25 years ago. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Those unfortunate flies descended into an endless sleep from which they couldn't wake themselves up; in the world of fruit flies, Miesenböck is pretty much the witch in Sleeping Beauty. A molecule called ‘Sandman’ could help solve the ‘mystery of sleep’ 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z And, he said, fruit flies simply won’t engage in courtship when they are tethered. Creating a Window Into a Fly’s Brain 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The mutation—the insertion of a portion of DNA that can “jump” to a new location within a genome—occurs within cortex, a gene known to affect cell division and egg development in fruit flies. ‘Landmark study’ solves mystery behind classic evolution story 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z But in sequencing the genomes of some of these fruit flies, the team found another clue: The genes that make sperm long are closely associated with the genes that make female storage organs long. Fruit fly sperm is epically long, and we may finally know why 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z And both humans and fruit flies, it turns out, can drink to that. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Cryptochromes have since been found in the retinas of monarch butterflies, fruit flies, frogs, birds, and even humans. How Do Animals Keep from Getting Lost? 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z But in the case of fruit flies, it isn’t about the males. Why the tiny fruit fly has giant sperm: Size matters to her 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z But in the case of fruit flies, it isn't about the males. Fruit Flies Have Huge Sperm 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Scientists have spent years trying to figure out why, and a new study suggests a possible explanation for the monstrous sperm cells of the humble fruit fly. Fruit fly sperm is epically long, and we may finally know why 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In the 1920s, another American geneticist, Hermann J Muller, demonstrated that radiation leads to genetic mutation in fruit flies. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Further lab research with mice and fruit flies found that neurotensin inhibits the activity of a key enzyme that regulates metabolism, known as AMPK, the study authors said. Does Fat-Storing Hormone Cause Obesity? 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Keller’s lab uses microscopes that fire sheets of light into the brains and embryos of small organisms such as fruit flies, zebrafish and mice. The struggle with image glut 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Biologists now say, definitively, that it does, at least among fruit flies. Fruit Flies Have Huge Sperm 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z One extreme example of this is the fruit fly. Some species of these flies can produce coiled-up sperm more than 2 inches long, which is 20 times the length of their own body. Fruit fly sperm is epically long, and we may finally know why 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z As a result of his foundational work, which includes his classic book Won For All: How the Drosophila Genome Was Sequenced, Cambridge has become arguably the world’s leading centre of fruit fly research. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z The French farm ministry says alternative products exist to treat cherries, a position rejected by farmers who say dimethoate is the only effective treatment at a time of high fruit fly presence. France says to ban imports of cherries treated with dimethoate 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The research, published in Cell Reports, found fruit flies lived 16% longer than average when given low doses of lithium. Lithium study helps scientists unlock ageing puzzle - BBC News 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The animal model it uses for its experiments is decidedly smaller: the tiny fruit fly. Seeking Elixir of Life, a Scientist Studies Fruit Flies 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z He and his colleagues hope to learn more about the mechanisms that drove fruit flies to evolve in this unique way. Fruit fly sperm is epically long, and we may finally know why 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z He shows me a magnification of a load of fruit flies that have been knocked out by carbon dioxide. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z This tiny marine mollusk flaps its wings just as a fruit fly does, only it lives underwater. Your Tuesday Evening Briefing: Donald Trump, Syria, Zika 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z At low doses, lithium prolonged the life of fruit flies in lab experiments. Lithium study helps scientists unlock ageing puzzle - BBC News 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Water is more viscous, but the snail is larger than a tiny insect like a fruit fly. A Sea Snail That Moves Like a Flying Insect 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Rather than working with bacteria taken from the human gut, that team turned to a strain of bacteria known to promote growth in fruit flies even when they receive a low-nutrient diet. Gut bacteria may be the difference between well-fed and malnourished 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z For him, the beauty of the fruit fly is that it is a organism that rewards study in a larger context. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Until recently, most of the work done on the genetics of being an early riser was conducted in fruit flies or mice. Being a ‘morning person’ has a genetic basis, 23andMe study says 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z How lithium acts on the brain is not fully understood, but in fruit flies the drug seems to extend life by blocking a chemical known as GSK-3. Lithium study helps scientists unlock ageing puzzle - BBC News 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z In the field’s early days, scientists focused on model organisms — species common across labs, such as the fruit fly, mouse, or zebrafish — as well as those that are medically or economically important. Bed bug genome shows how gnarly these creatures really are 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z For the study, researchers fed varying doses of green tea polyphenols mixed with bananas and molasses to fruit fly larvae. The Self-Styled Healthy May Get Fewer Colds 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z O’Kane has grown to appreciate the rich biological and social development of fruit flies in the time he’s been working with them. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z "The associations seem to be very strong," says Eran Tauber, a geneticist at the University of Leicester who didn't work on the 23andMe study, but who was involved in last year's fruit fly experiment. Being a ‘morning person’ has a genetic basis, 23andMe study says 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Dr. Chang’s team also performed a transplant, replacing the roX gene in the common fruit fly with genes from other species. Telling Jewels From Junk in DNA 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In April, two biologists at the University of California, San Diego, Valentino M. Gantz and Ethan Bier, caused a stir with a gene drive system that carried a gene for albinism into laboratory fruit flies. Gene Drives Offer New Hope Against Diseases and Crop Pests 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The study didn’t explore the mechanisms underlying green tea exposure and reproductive abnormalities in fruit flies. The Self-Styled Healthy May Get Fewer Colds 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Out in the wild, there is no pest quite so sympathetic to human needs as the humble fruit fly. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Those fruit flies, for example, live off sugars and other products of plants and fungi, so ethanol naturally occurs in their diet. Animals Like to Get Drunk, Too 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z In a method ominously dubbed “mutagenic chain reaction,” the researchers drove a pigmentation trait in lab-grown fruit flies to the next generation with 97% efficiency. And Science’s Breakthrough of the Year is … 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z But last year a fruit fly, a common threat for growers, devastated much of her olive crop. Provence's Legendary Lavender and Olives Threatened by a Changing Climate 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z They include France’s desire to export more dairy products to Brazil, and Brazil’s insistence that French Guiana do more to stop the spread of a fruit fly that threatens a Brazilian crop. Linking Brazil to French Guiana, a Bridge for No One 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z It was a critical breakthrough, but there was no particular reason that it had to be made via the fruit fly. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z The engineered Mediterranean fruit flies possess a gene that prevents female flies from reaching adulthood. Australia trial for GM fruit fly - BBC News 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z They inserted genes encoding the components of the system that were designed to insert a specific mutation in their fruit flies. 'Gene drive' mosquitoes engineered to fight malaria 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z The two teams came together after Dr. Gantz and Dr. Bier developed a gene drive for the Drosophila fruit fly, a standard laboratory organism, to help identify genetically mutant insects. Engineering Mosquitoes’ Genes to Resist Malaria 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Supporting this theory, unmated male fruit flies given artificial doses of neuropeptide F avoided alcohol. Do Animals Get Drunk? 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z He’s been working with fruit flies for 25 years and in that time he’s come to know and appreciate many of their hidden – to most human observers – characteristics. In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z When the scientists ran similar simulations with virtual fruit flies, however, they found the flies, which have featherweight wings, could not land upside down without using aerodynamic forces. Mystery Solved: How Bats Can Land Upside Down 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In the cells of fruit flies, Chinese scientists say that they have found a biological compass needle: a rod-shaped complex of proteins that can align with Earth’s weak magnetic field. Discovery of long-sought biological compass claimed 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Bier and Gantz say that they are developing similar safeguards in fruit flies. Safety upgrade found for gene-editing technique 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z And in July, geneticists showed that one gene drive system was almost 100% effective in spreading a mutated pigmentation gene through a population of lab fruit flies, fueling fears about the power of gene drive. Gene drive workshop shows technology’s promise, or peril, remains far off 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “The fly is yesterday’s guy,” he says, “yesterday’s technology. For me, stem cells are the next fruit fly.” In praise of the humble fruit fly 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Lasek and her colleagues began by studying fruit flies to search for gene variations that altered the fly’s behavior toward alcohol. Why Binge Drinking May Wire the Brain for Alcohol Dependence 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Xie says that he has found a protein in fruit flies that both binds to iron and interacts with Cry. Discovery of long-sought biological compass claimed 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The microscopic mandibles of a fruit fly, for one. Hooke opened up the world of the unseen 350 years ago 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Dr. Kramer, of EHA Consulting Group, mentioned a regulation prohibiting fruit flies as a prime example, a mandate he said was not based on evidence. Health Exam Help for Restaurants to Avoid Rodents, or Worse, a C 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The findings extended beyond inbred laboratory animals such as fruit flies and mice. The hidden risks for ‘three-person’ babies 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The study of the Bronx centenarians built on a surge of basic aging research in model organisms like yeast, fruit flies, and nematodes. Feature: The man who wants to beat back aging 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Thanks to extensive studies on wing development in fruit flies, the researchers were familiar with the network of genes that was likely to be involved in wing development in the ants. Arizona’s virgin ant queens could shed light on the predictability of evolution 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z A number of years ago, for example, scientists conducted an experiment on fruit flies that appeared to identify the gene responsible for curly wings. Psychology Is Not in Crisis 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z He compared gene sequences from the standard laboratory fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, with other closely related fruit fly species. A Surprise Source of Life's Code 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Such experiments would be unethical in people and impractical in many other animals, so Rand turned to fruit flies. The hidden risks for ‘three-person’ babies 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Take fruit flies—which sip alcohol to ward off parasitic wasps. Sick Ants Seek Out Medicinal Food 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The team tested the idea in fruit flies with the mutation, which display damage in the nerve cells of their eyes and in motor neurons. Plugged pores may cause dementia, other neurological diseases 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z |
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