It belongs to an adult female fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster ... the research could be in the running for a future Nobel prize. "This is a major achievement," says neuroscientist Mala ...

Eight Nobel Prizes have been awarded to scientists for research using fruit flies. Why do scientists find fruit flies so fruitful? First, Drosophila melanogaster, as they’re scientifically known, are ...

A scientist is accusing French immunologist Jules Hoffmann, who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with Bruce Beutler for the discovery in Drosophila that the Toll gene ...

Since the award was created in 1996, nine recipients have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. The Massry is the fourth major award for the trio’s research into circadian rhythms using the fruit fly ...

A further milestone in the scientific career of Drosophila was the awarding of the Nobel Prize in 1995 to three development biologists, among them Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard from the Max Planck ...

This year's Nobel Prizes mark the most significant technological advance in cell biology, GFP et al., as well as two discoveries in virology with major health implications. In the last decade a ...