Fruit flies aiding in research for Sanfilippo syndrome treatment. Researchers at Clemson University study enzyme defects and ...

Princeton University scientists have mapped the brain of an adult fruit fly, making major strides to better understand the ...

Biologists have sequenced the first genome draft of any insect in Pakistan, a tiny fly utilized for medical research in thousands of labs worldwide.

Microscopic pores on the surface of leaves called stomata help plants "breathe" by controlling how much water they lose due to evaporation. These stomatal pores also enable and control carbon ...

In addition to other factors, such as diet and environment, genetics may play a role in whether you will develop allergies. This is especially true if someone in your family already has allergies.

Similarly, she worked on retrotransposons at Drosophila telomeres that were an outlier to the more common telomerase ... Pardue also served as President of the Genetics Society of America (1982/3) and ...

Salil Bidaye is an expert at using the powerful research model Drosophila Melanogaster (aka the fruit fly) to understand how neural circuit activity leads to precise and complex behaviors such as ...

Drosophila are also used to study how embryos ... While earning a master’s degree in population genetics, Abdulazeez stayed with her auntie while trying to catch flies in the city of Kaduna ...

Research is heralding in a new era for genetic sequencing and testing. Research led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London is heralding in a new era for genetic sequencing and testing ...

This month's cover highlights the article Nup358 restricts ER-mitochondria connectivity by modulating mTORC2/Akt/GSK3β signalling by Jomon Joseph, Misha Kalarikkal and colleagues. The image shows a ...