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

The humble cricket joins lab mice, fruit flies and zebrafish in the curious pantheon of model organisms. HOANG DINH NAM/AFP via Getty Images hide caption ...

A particularly useful model organism is Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly. This fly has become the main invertebrate model used to study developmental genetics. It has been ...

And more than that: Fruit flies share nearly 75% of the genes that cause disease in humans. That, and their short lifespan, make them an extremely useful to scientists who study human diseases, ...

Over 10,000 researchers worldwide are estimated to work with fruit flies in many areas of science related to human biology and disease. June 14, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...

The microbe shares these traits—i.e., quick growth and relatively easy manipulability—with other model organisms, like fruit ...

The fruit fly as a model organism. Ageing Developmental Biology. Thomas Hunt Morgan has now been studying flies in his "fly laboratory" at Columbia University for two years. Day after day, the trained ...

The researchers used fruit flies because they’re considered “model organisms,” meaning the flies are among a list of organisms that scientists have long studied in depth to gain a better ...

The fruit flies were fed diets spiked with two distinct concentrations of MPs: 1×MPs at 0.02 mg/mL and 10×MPs at 0.2 mg/mL. The exposure periods encompassed various developmental stages ...

“Fruit flies are incredibly special because they are basically the first model organism and have been studied for over 100 years,” said Alexis Sperling, a researcher at the University of ...

The researchers used fruit flies because they’re considered “model organisms,” meaning the flies are among a list of organisms that scientists have long studied in depth to gain a better ...