Translational Findings
- How fruit flies are helping us find cures for cancer
- Fruit fly contributions to research in circadian rhythms
- What drunk fruit flies can tell us about alcohol addiction
- How fruit flies are helping us understand Parkinson’s disease
- How fruit fly research has already contributed to human health
Fly Life
- Fruit flies in the science classroom
- Watching fruit flies sleep
- Fruit flies at SFN 2014
- How to name your new fruit fly gene (and what not to name it)
- A day-in-the-life of a fly scientist
- Why fruit flies are a good model organism for research
Breaking Research
- Bitter substances suppress sweet signaling in the brain
- How the brain recognizes hot and cold
- Separable short- and long-term memories can form after a momentous occasion
- Fruit flies help uncover the brain’s link between sleep and memory
- A new technique for studying axon death using fruit fly wings
- Glycogen build-up in the brain contributes to aging
- Lithium may protect against Alzheimer’s and other aging-related diseases
- A method by which invading bacteria avoid detection could also be our key to defeating them
- WIDE AWAKE is a newly identified gene that explains how we become sleepy at night
- Aging can be delayed in fruit flies by activating AMPK in the gut
- Fruit flies provide insights into metabolism and how we age
- A recent study in fruit flies suggests that sleep loss during childhood could lead to abnormal brain development
- A study in fruit flies finds a possible drug target to compensate for symptoms of Parkinson’s disease
- A new technique for uncovering cell-specific differences in the Drosophila “interactome”
Holiday Specials
- Valentine’s Day Special: Drosophila in lust
- New Year’s Special: Flies in Space (and other news from 2014)
- Christmas Special: Drosophila art
- Thanksgiving Special: Uncovering the link between sleep and food
- Halloween Special: The Drosophila Halloween genes
Guest Posts
- “Why do we have to learn this stuff?” — establishing Drosophila as a MODERN teaching tool in schools, Dr. Andreas Prokop, University of Manchester
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