A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells, leading to signs of ...

Exposure to B. bassiana fungus activated Toll receptors, leading to cell death throughout the fly brain. A new study ...

In an article published in Developmental Cell, scientists show how neurons establish their connections in specific layers ...

2003 ). For example, when expressed in the Drosophila brain, Tau protein—which forms neurofibrillary tangle pathology in AD—causes adult onset, progressive neurodegeneration, truncated lifespan and ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly’s own immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found. The paper published in PLOS Biology ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly’s immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of ...

When you’re hungry after learning something, your brain might prioritize remembering some kinds of information over others. A ...

A further milestone in the scientific career of Drosophila was the awarding of the Nobel Prize in 1995 to three development ... from the genetic control of basic life processes via the way in which ...

JMU scientists studied insulin-producing cells in fruit flies, finding that secretion is influenced by gut hormones, ...

This important study identifies a new key factor in orchestrating the process of glial wrapping of axons in Drosophila wandering larvae. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is convincing ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (green), plasma membrane (blue), mitochondria (pink), microtubules (tan), and ER-plasma membrane contacts (magenta) are segmented from FIB-SEM datasets of a Drosophila ...

elegantly show that, in Drosophila, astrocytes signal to neurons ... and providing insights into astrocyte network organization across brain regions. Rabah et al. discover an astrocyte-to-neuron ...