Baylor College of Medicine scientists have filled in the final gaps of the genetic map of the fruit fly, an insect long considered a vital tool in the study of human disease. Collaborating with U.S.

Researchers at Simon Fraser University, in collaboration with a group from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, have identified a gene that appears to reverse Parkinson's disease symptoms in fruit ...

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Fruit flies are excellent research models, in part because it is so easy and inexpensive to raise them, and also because they are so well characterized. The DNA of these insects is estimated to be ...

This fruit fly, or Drosophila melanogaster, was collected in Europe around 1933 and added to the entomological collection at Lund University. UW–Madison researchers are using its DNA — with more from ...

New research shows that one fruit fly species contains whole genomes of a kind of bacteria, making this finding the largest bacteria-to-animal transfer of genetic material ever discovered. The new ...