THE allelomorphic series of mutations in Drosophila known as bar-eye and ultra-bar have been much investigated owing to their variability in the number of ommatidia present. It has been shown ...

Syntretus perlmani, an unusual parasitoid wasp capable of attacking adult flies, has been found to infect the fruit fly Drosophila. While screening for parasites in flies caught in our back ...

In this study, we employed an exhaustive, multi-level approach to leverage Drosophila IPCs as a model for investigating neuromodulatory dynamics and principles of metabolic homeostasis in vivo. Using ...

Glycolysis impairment in the fat body of developing Drosophila larvae leads to distant body-wall muscle disorganization. These muscle defects are mediated by the adipose tissue secretion of TNF-α/egr ...

After watching the announcement trailer for Whispers of the Eyeless, I have one request: please, do not have that voiceover in the full game. It is hammier than a hamster eating a ham sandwich in ...

Take a look at the announcement trailer for Whispers of the Eyeless, an all-new dark fantasy turn-based RPG developed by Venris and Evil Gingerbread Studio. Players infiltrate the medieval city ...

A mix of base building, combat, management, and psychology, this is Whispers of the Eyeless. Put simply, in Whispers of the Eyeless, you’re the villain. The fantasy city of Aranthor is ...

Japan We performed RNAi screening of SNAREs using mosaic expression of RNAi constructs in Drosophila retinas and found that the knockdown phenotype of SNAREs involved in the transport between the ER ...

Another volcanic vent story has hit the news after British scientists revealed details of the world's most extreme deep-sea vent – 5km down in a rift in the Caribbean sea floor. The undersea hot ...

Recent work in Drosophila has uncovered a sleep switch in the dorsal fan-shaped body (dFB) of the fly’s central brain, but it is not known whether these sleep-promoting neurons also govern the acute ...