News articles tagged with 'Drosophila'
Mount Sinai researcher finds unexpected temperature sensation for a light detector
— 12 Mar 2011 14:35 | HealthNew research from Mount Sinai School of Medicine has discovered that rhodopsin, a pigment of the retina that is responsible for the first events in the perception of light, may also…
In tiny fruit flies, researchers identify metabolic 'switch' that links normal growth to cancer
— 2 Feb 2011 16:19 | HealthAs day-old embryos, fruit flies called Drosophila enter a stage in which their cells freely divide and proliferate as the insect grows dramatically in size…
How do neural stem cells decide what to be - and when?
— 16 Nov 2010 11:15 | HealthResearchers at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have uncovered a novel feedback mechanism that controls the delicate balance of brain stem cells…
Scientists discover a new protein critical for mitochondria
— 3 Nov 2010 12:40 | HealthA study by the team headed by Lluis Ribas de Pouplana, ICREA professor at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), has been chosen as 'Paper of the week' in the December…
Team led by Scripps Research scientist identifies new gene for memory
— 9 Sep 2010 10:54 | HealthA team led by a Scripps Research Institute scientist has for the first time identified a new gene that is required for memory formation in Drosophila, the common fruit fly. The gene…
Frozen flies may yield secrets for human organ transplants
— 19 Aug 2010 16:38 | HealthWhen kitchens become infiltrated with fruit flies, especially during the dog days of summer, homeowners might wish that the flying pests would just turn to ice…
A life-changing partnership
— 26 Jun 2010 13:04 | BiologyResearchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology Freiburg have identified a novel protein complex…
Researchers identify genes and brain centres that regulate meal size in flies
— 21 May 2010 10:57 | BiologyBiologists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Yale University have identified two genes, the leucokinin neuropeptide and the leucokinin receptor, that appear…
Controls for animals' colour designs revealed
— 8 Apr 2010 13:02 | BiologyThe vivid colours and designs animals use to interact with their environments have awed and inspired since before people learned to draw on the cave wall…
Scientists shed new light on how retina's hardware is used in colour vision
— 20 Mar 2010 15:16 | HealthBiologists at New York University and the University of Wuerzburg have identified, in greater detail, how the retina's cellular hardware is used in colour preference. The findings,…