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

As we move further into the 21st century, science continues to surprise and challenge our understanding of the world. In 2024 ...

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

Male fruit flies don't just sing to their mates; they also use sound-cancelling wing-flicks to jockey with rivals. This new understanding of how male flies compete for female partners could shed light ...

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.

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

Now, an in vivo protocol facilitates screens in mouse brain, using adeno-associated virus with transposon-based delivery of the CRISPR guide RNAs.

Since the nineteenth-century drawings of neurons by the neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the brain has been appreciated as the most complex organ, even though morphology (shape) was the ...

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

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 ...

Founder Brett Adcock stated Figure’s new AI model would deliver ‘something no one has ever seen on a humanoid’ within 30 days.

Humans produce insulin in their pancreas. In the fruit fly Drosophila, however, the hormone is produced by nerve cells located in the brain. These cells release the insulin directly into the ...