Fruit flies, they’re just like us As fly larvae navigate in search of food, they engage in head-sweeping behavior akin to sniffing in humans. Their smell sensory neurons, similar to the ones located ...
The same mechanism is likely to exist in humans too, the scientists said ... Bonn and the U.K.'s University of Cambridge used fruit fly larvae for this study because they have a network of ...
Winding has also been using the larva connectome to ... of different areas of the human brain may be a more realistic goal. In the meantime, the fruit fly could have plenty of lessons for ...
Humans can handle eating a little bit of asphalt – medieval Persian doctors used to prescribe it for stomach ulcers. But the stuff would overwhelm our systems if we ate as much as a petroleum fly ...
Previous efforts have completed the whole brain diagrams for much smaller brains, for example, for that of a fruit fly larva ... is too big a challenge for humans to complete manually.
However, scientists report that queen black garden ants ( Lasius niger ) eat offspring in a seemingly unappetizing state: when the larvae are infected with a fungus 1 . By doing so, the queens ...