Fruit flies are interesting little creatures. On top of being extremely invasive and annoying to deal with, they also have a bit of a super power when it comes to drugs: they don't like cocaine for ...

This summer, a small number of invasive Mediterranean fruit flies were detected in San Jose. In response, the state started doing something that might seem strange: releasing millions more fruit flies ...

Cheng Lyu, PhD., Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, California, USA, wins the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for his work on rewiring the olfactory neural circuit in fruit flies. ...

Adrian Rothenfluh, PhD (left) and Pearl Cummins-Beebee (right, also an author on the paper) inspect a bottle of fruit flies in the lab. For the first time, researchers have created genetically ...

Left image: Tumor cells (green) and dying cancer cells (magenta). Right image: Blocking macrophages from eating dying cancer cells suppresses tumor growth in fruit flies. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Feeding cocaine to "franken-flies" could lead to a cure for drug addiction, say scientists. Researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies for the first time that can become addicted to the ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — Some animals get tougher to survive harsh conditions. Others get smarter. But a certain desert fruit fly has evolved to crave the very thing that could kill it. Scientists from ...