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 ...

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 ...

Scientists in Greece are fighting fire with fire by releasing fruit flies in orchards to counter more destructive fruit flies, the Gist reported in a Phys.org article. There are several problematic ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Oregon men’s tennis team is made up of players from across the country and the globe, united in Eugene around the universal language of... In 1941, Robert McCloskey wrote “Make Way for Ducklings” ...

A new study conducted on fruit flies reports the first evidence that oocytes -- the cells that become eggs -- regularly rejuvenate the critical protein linkages that bind chromosomes together. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time, researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies that can become addicted to cocaine. The flies will self-administer cocaine if given the option. The new model could prove ...