The unbelievably tiny intestine of an adult fruit fly, labeled with fluorescent markers. ©2024 Yuichiro Nakajima CC-BY-ND ...

Most textbooks credit nearby epithelial cells with the heavy lifting of organ building, because epithelial sheets act like ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan studied what happens when macrophages—a type of immune cell—encounter dying cancer ...

An international team of neuroscientists showed for the first time that modifying a protein that controls cell growth can reactivate dormant neural stem cells in fruit flies, offering new hope in the ...

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

(CN) — While the intestines of fruit flies might seem unrelated to human health, new research indicates research into their inner workings could have implications for human stem cell treatments.. In a ...

All of the nerve cells — and virtually every connection between them — in a larval fruit fly brain have now been mapped, researchers report in the March 10 Science. It’s the most complex ...

A team of life scientists at Hanyang University, in Korea, working with a pair of colleagues from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, has found that fruit flies use crystal ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Scientists announced on Thursday a milestone in neurobiological research with the mapping of the entire brain of an adult fruit fly, a feat that may provide insight ...