It’s a familiar sight most of us have dealt with: a swarm of fruit flies circling around an old banana peel you forgot to discard or an overripe apple lingering in the fruit bowl. While the pests are ...
Scientists with the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Research Institute in La Jolla have been preparing for months to send fruit flies to the International Space Station. “When I was a kid I wanted to ...
LA JOLLA, CA—Fruit flies and humans share most of their genes, including 70 percent of all known human disease genes. Taking advantage of this remarkable evolutionary conservation, researchers at the ...
Deborah Kimbrell one of first researchers to study innate immunity in fruit flies. This is one in a series of stories highlighting UC Davis’ role in space research as the country reaches the 50th ...
Entomologist Thomas Werner has studied fruit flies from coast to coast. But his rarest discovery to date was close to home. Armed with a banana-baited live trap and a strong desire to disprove a gap ...
Not long after it brought on a fresh crew of astronauts, China’s Tiangong space station has received yet another group of new visitors: fruit flies. Now, the flies will be used to study the biological ...
When Amos Abolaji returned to Nigeria from a year abroad, he brought home a strange souvenir — two jars full of fruit flies. The biochemist had been conducting postdoctoral research at the Federal ...
NORMAL — A common household pest could explain how autoimmune disorders occur in humans. A recent paper by an Illinois State University professor and past and present students helps describe how fruit ...
It’s generally believed that evolution is a gradual process that takes place over significant periods of time. When it comes to fruit flies, however, researchers have long known that their ...
A new UC Davis study reveals previously unknown cell types in the female reproductive tract of Drosophila fruit flies. The knowledge could help in studies of fertility in general, and in managing ...
Anesthetize them with carbon dioxide. Sort males from females. Use virgins. By Malia Wollan “Make sure you use flies that haven’t bred before,” says Christina Lim, 28, who spent years breeding and ...
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