Science news articles about 'fruit fly study'

ATHENS, Ga., May 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered why maturing fruit flies switch from voracious eating to the avoidance of food.

... de facto stem cell during the fruit-fly life cycle. The surprising discovery ... different kinds of progenitor cells in a single fruit-fly tissue raises the possibility that there may be more than one kind ...

Researchers defend olive fruit fly studies ridiculed by vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin

(PhysOrg.com) -- Charles Aquadro, professor of molecular biology and genetics, researches how fruit flies provide clues to humans' own genetic footprints of adaptation.

Fruit fly studies find that snoozing prunes connections between brain cells