A protective mechanism that allows fruit flies to lay fewer eggs in response to bacterial infection is explained in a new study. A protective mechanism that allows fruit flies to lay fewer eggs in ...

Sinking your teeth into a juicy, ripe watermelon is one of summer's greatest pleasures, particularly when you don't have to spit out any seeds. Indeed, humans have adapted many fruits to be seedless ...

Although green tea is enjoyed by millions for its numerous health benefits, researchers have discovered that excessive consumption adversely affected development and reproduction in fruit fly ...

Getty Images At the end of January Russian scientists completed a reproduction experiment, raising four generations of fruit flies on the International Space Station (ISS). The researchers were ...

Osaka, Japan – For many of us, when we think of microbiomes, our first thoughts are probably about the beneficial microorganisms that live in our guts. But now, researchers from Japan and US have ...

The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) has been among the favourite organisms of genetics researchers for more than a hundred years. Many years of intense research with these diminutive creatures ...

If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and die in order for the fruit to grow. But are there ...

A protective mechanism that allows fruit flies to lay fewer eggs in response to bacterial infection is explained in a study published in the journal eLife. The findings represent a case of ...