They have released the first ever complete diagram of an entire fruit fly brain. Sure, fruit flies are very small, and their ...

From oceans found on distant planets to a detailed map of a fly’s brain, these findings deepened our understanding of the ...

FRUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and published in a series of papers written by scientists worldwide, including ...

Are neurons star players, or do they prioritise teamwork? A new study has uncovered an answer for this long-standing debate ...

Sperm are the most diverse and rapidly evolving cell type. Why sperm have undergone such dramatic evolution is a mystery that ...

It helps enormously that the structure and connections from one fruit fly brain to another are highly consistent – a characteristic called neural stereotypy. If that weren’t the case, making a ...

This furry ring is a compilation of 50 neurons in the fruit fly brain that help the fly navigate. Recent research shows that when the fly changes course, different sections of this ring activate, ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute-led research has uncovered three neural circuit mechanisms that enable female fruit flies to ...

The discovery of a gut-to-brain regulation pathway in flies highlights the potential for certain medications to be further ...