In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or ...

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In early November, assistant professor Mike Smanski published an article about a new breakthrough in this research, demonstrating for the first time this kind of genetic engineering was possible in ...

An expert entomologist explains the best (and worst) methods for ridding your kitchen of those annoying little flies.

The common fruit fly - Drosophila melanogaster - has been the subject of genetics research since the early twentieth century. The complete genomic sequence of Drosophila was published in 2000 and it ...

Outwardly, fruit flies and humans have little in common. It is all the more astonishing that roughly 60 percent of the fly's genes can also be found in humans in a similar form. Many insights gained ...

How were they passed from one generation to the next? Incredibly, Morgan tackled these questions with the help of the common fruit fly. Young naturalist. Morgan was born on September 25 ...

They are the tiny, pesky flies circling the fruit bowl in the kitchen: Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, is one of the most important species for genetic research. Using an ...