When Amos Abolaji returned to Nigeria from a year abroad, he brought home a strange souvenir — two jars full of fruit flies. The biochemist had been conducting postdoctoral research at the Federal ...

Scientists with the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Research Institute in La Jolla have been preparing for months to send fruit flies to the International Space Station. “When I was a kid I wanted to ...

Scientists have solved a cellular murder mystery nearly 25 years after the case went cold. Following a trail of evidence from fruit flies to mice to humans revealed that cannibalistic cells likely ...

For years, scientists have struggled to understand why some cells die off when exposed to radiation while others not only survive, but come back stronger than before. Now, Weizmann Institute of ...

A study published in Molecular Psychiatry reveals a path of cause-effect molecular events that can lead to Alzheimer’s ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge ...

When Harvard Medical School professor Dragana Rogulja wanted to learn how sleep deprivation affects the human body, she began by studying specimens from another species entirely: Drosophila ...

Kristin Scaplen, a psychology professor at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., said she’s using fruit flies to help look at how alcohol use changes circuits in the brain. While the common fruit fly ...

New research finds fruit flies make decisions based on their expectations about the likelihood of a reward and pinpoints the site in the fly brain where these value adjustments are made, enabling ...

Alcohol use disorder, which affects over 10% of Americans, can lead to persistent and serious insomnia. Difficulties falling asleep and staying asleep can last even after months of sobriety, ...

A study published in Molecular Psychiatry reveals a path of cause-effect molecular events that can lead to Alzheimer's ...