Metabolic theory for brain wiring at different temperatures The research was financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the Research Unit RobustCircuit -- From Imprecision to Robustness in Neural Circuit Assembly (FOR 5289) and the Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences…
A new study of the defective chorion 1 gene in two major pest fruit flies finds pervasive purifying selection punctuated by episodes of positive selection across exons and evolutionary lineages.
The resulting IgY-DILP2 antibody from this study specifically labeled the insulin-producing cells, or IPCs, in the adult fly brain, the neuroendocrine cells where DILP2 is naturally produced. Validation went further using a previously characterized dUCH-knockdown model, a genetic system in which…
Nature (2026) Cite this article Azevedo, A. et al. Connectomic reconstruction of a female Drosophila ventral nerve cord. Nature 631, 360–368 (2024). Bates, A. S. et al. Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome. Nature 656, 957–970 (2026). Berg, S. et al. Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome…
A critical review finds that fruit fly gravity research identifies candidate sensitive life stages but that many spaceflight responses cannot yet be confidently attributed to reduced gravity itself. News Source: Denise Maddox. (October 27, 2026). Fruit Fly Studies in Space Reveal Which…
A single-cell atlas of 232,251 developing fruit fly neurons links gene activity to regulatory DNA switches and suggests that neuronal identity is rebuilt shortly after the final cell division.
A single species of fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been the subject of scientific research for more than one hundred years. Why does this tiny insect merit such intense scrutiny? Drosophila’s... By Stephanie Mohr (PhDMCDBioâ99)(Harvard University Press, 272 pages; 2018) Buy the…
To sustainably supply the endangered Japanese eel, the development of cell-cultured eel is expected. However, there have been no spontaneously immortalized adipocyte cell lines in fish species, and the foundation for reproducing fat tissue has been limited. Kitasato University also…
Bioengineer.org Subject of Research: The legacy of the Drosophila reaper gene in apoptosis research Article Title: Thirty years of reaper: lessons learned from programmed cell death in Drosophila News Source: Juliet Wilcox. (October 16, 2026). Thirty Years of reaper: How a…
As2S2 restores erythroid maturation in sf3b1-deficient zebrafish by upregulating smad7, revealing a new therapeutic target for myelodysplastic syndromes.
Research on mice, zebrafish, fruit flies, C. elegans worms, yeast and Arabidopsis, and newer models such as axolotls and naked mole-rats.
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