75% of human genes known to be associated with diseases have their corresponding genes in the fruit fly genome, making Drosophila a widely used experimental system for modeling human diseases. The ...

Drosophila—commonly known as fruit flies—are a valuable model for human heart pathophysiology, including cardiac aging and cardiomyopathy. However, a choke point in evaluating fruit fly hearts ...

Despite the advantages of using Drosophila to study human diseases, several disadvantages also exist. ... Drosophila as a Model Organism. News-Medical, viewed 08 July 2025, ...

A fruit fly ( Drosophila melanogaster) model has been developed that reproduces human colon cancer. Through their work, the scientists have identified a human gene that favors the proliferation of ...

Researchers at Tohoku University have discovered that an oral drug called MA-5 can improve both heart and muscle problems in ...

FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter ...

This lead to a new paradigm for understanding how human disease genes function – we can analyse their partners in the simpler organism. Bottles of Drosophila. OTRIUS ...

Now research from the same laboratory, directed by Nancy Bonini, University of Pennsylvania, suggests that molecular chaperones may also ameliorate neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease (PD).

Research uncovered how glycogen metabolism in neurons impacts neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Disruption in this ...

“FlyWire,” a Princeton-led team of scientists and citizen scientists, has now made a massive step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap — ...