Fruit-fly diet impacts descendants, researcher finds. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 6, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 08 / 160815135228.htm. University of Alabama.

Morgridge Center for Research Investigator and University of Wisconsin professor of genetics Daniela Drummond-Barbosa gave insight into the connection between fruit flies and human health Sept. 14 ...

A high-fat diet reduces male fruit fly aggression after concussions, UConn researchers report in the 30 October issue of Frontiers in Neuroscience. The findings hint at potential treatments to ...

For her appearance on The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, Casey shared an excerpt of her book that challenges the narrow ...

What they found: Using gene knockout experiments during a fly's larva-to-adult transition, researchers found that those ...

Technically, it's the yeast they crave, produced by yummy rotting fruit, but they can consume quite a lot of ethanol as a result of that fruity diet. Yes, fruit flies have ultra-fast metabolisms ...

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in ...

A fly’s diet perfectly suits its role in nature. ... There are over 120,000 species of flies, including houseflies, blowflies, fruit flies, gnats, hoverflies, and more.

Scientists fed fruit flies a diet to make them extra plump. In their old age, the researchers put them on a diet and found remarkable results. If the findings transfer to humans, it might mean we ...

The hormones in our gut may play a significant role in the aging process. A study has found that gut hormones could control how long we live. The discovery sheds some light on how our diet influences ...

Fruit flies live short and fast—the lifespan of flies raised on a high-calorie diet is less than 80 days, while the longest-lived on a low-calorie diet can reach 120 days.

We share 98% of our DNA with primates, 97.5% with mice, and 60% with fruit flies. Yes, fruit flies. And given we share key genetic ­features, fruit flies make excellent models for research ...