Fruit flies ... and other bugs setting up shop in your kitchen and dining area. The experts we interviewed recommended a slew ...

You’re seeing hundreds of images mosaic together to encompass the whole fly brain from tip to tip.” On a large monitor, the ...

Worm towers– sometimes called swarms– “were kind of just whispered about in the worm community,” says Ding. Previously, there were anecdotal reports and documented observations of these multi-nematode ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on Earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and ...

Living worm towers are recorded in the wild for the first time, a rare example of collective hitchhiking in nature ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and out. So, they play to the ...

For the first time, researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies that can become addicted to cocaine. The flies ...

Genetically modified fruit flies addicted to cocaine may speed up addiction research and help uncover new treatment targets.

Cocaine-addicted fruit flies might sound crazy, but researchers say they could help us understanding cocaine addiction in ...

Even when previously introduced to cocaine, Rothenfluh’s team noted that the insects routinely opted for pure sugar water ...

Though simple, fruit flies are powerful tools for biomedical research. They reproduce quickly, are easy to manipulate ...

In a new JNeurosci paper, Adrian Rothenfluh and colleagues from the University of Utah developed a fruit fly model of cocaine ...