Seung and Murthy say that they’ve been developing the FlyWire map for more than four years, using electron microscopy images ...

Scientists announced on Thursday a milestone in neurobiological research with the mapping of the entire brain of an adult ...

Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

Scientists have achieved a milestone by creating the first complete wiring diagram of an adult fruit fly brain, featuring all ...

African researchers are using Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies to advance studies of genetics, biomedicine, developmental biology, toxicology and more.

In a horrific discovery that seems straight out of the science-fiction movie "Alien," researchers have found a new species of ...

Scientists have successfully mapped the entire brain of the fruit fly. This major neurobiological advance is published in Nature journal. By tracing connections from sensory cells to motor neurons, ...

Morgan's experiments are not only fundamental to our knowledge of heredity; they have also made an animal respectable for science, which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, ...

You can purchase fruit fly traps from your local hardware store or Amazon, but they’re cheap and easy to make yourself. The first type of trap uses a jar, a paper funnel and a piece of rotting ...

Perlmani, which is the only known species of wasp to infect fruit flies, was first discovered last year in a Mississippi backyard by scientists collecting a type of fruit fly called drosophila ...

To get one, go to the subscriptions page. It is autumn, and for some *&?%!$! reason, I cannot get past the fruit flies. They came in July, they lingered through August, and I was sure, absolutely ...

Syntretus perlmani lays its eggs in the bodies of living, adult fruit flies instead of larvae or pupae. The wasp larvae then burst out of the fly’s abdomen, killing it. The process is detailed ...