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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING -- Researchers have constructed a comprehensive 3D spatiotemporal multi-omics atlas of single cells throughout the ...

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 diminutive fruit fly is surprisingly sophisticated and has long served as a powerful model for understanding the biological underpinnings of behavior," said John Ngai, Ph.D., director of NIH ...

When the macrophages’ ability to consume dying cancer cells or Upd3 production was decreased, tumor growth was significantly ...

“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 ...