How Seeing Corpses Reduces the Lifespan of Fliesby PLOSSeeing the dead triggers R2/R4 neuronal activation, leading to reduced lifespans
NewsHarm from Blue Light Exposure May Increase with Ageby Oregon State UniversityNew study demonstrated association between blue light exposure and harmful effects on mitochondria of fruit fly cells
NewsHead, Body, Eye Coordination Conserved across Animal Kingdomby Penn StateVision-control movements observed in fruit flies may have evolved to conserve energy, improve performance
NewsTechnology Makes Studying Gene Function Easier, Faster, and More Efficientby Baylor College of MedicineResearchers tag the genes of interest with a gene that confers either resistance or sensitivity to specific drugs
NewsEvolution—Two Routes to the Same Destinationby Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenFruit flies have found at least two solutions to the problem of sorting their sex chromosomes
NewsHow Some Animals Sense the Gritty Texture of Their Foodby University of California - Santa BarbaraResearchers provide the first description of how certain animals sense the texture of their food based on grittiness versus smoothness
NewsScientists Discover a Social Cue of Safetyby Champalimaud Centre for the UnknownThe discovery of the first social safety cue was made thanks to a tiny insect: the fruit fly
NewsScientists Discover a New Class of Taste Receptorsby University of California - Santa BarbaraResearchers have discovered that multiple opsin proteins, known for decades to be required for vision, also function as taste receptors
NewsCRISPRed Fruit Flies Mimic Monarch Butterfly—and Could Make You Pukeby University of California - BerkeleyScientists recreate in flies the mutations that let monarch butterflies eat toxic milkweed with impunity
NewsSugar Alters Compounds That Impact Brain Health in Fruit Fliesby University of MichiganThis finding could tell researchers why behaviors that change with the internal energy state, such as food intake, learning and memory, and sleep change on high-nutrient diets
NewsFrom the Tiny Testes of Flies, New Insight into How Genes Ariseby The Rockefeller UniversityUsing fruit flies, a Rockefeller team has gained key insight into how nature's attempts at innovation play out during the development of sperm