Posts Tagged: fruit flies
What This Scientist Discovered in an Insect and Why It Matters
What this scientist discovered in an insect and why it matters... Naoki Yamanaka, an assistant...
A fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, feeding on a banana. (Photo by Sanjay Acharya, courtesy of Wikipedia)
Medflies: Permanent Residents
Breaking news shook the agricultural world today. The Mediterranean fruit fly, considered the...
Mediterranean Fruit Fly. (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark)
The Invasion of Tropical Fruit Flies
From a trickle to a flood. But why? Professor James R. Carey of the UC Davis Department of...
Mediterranean Fruit Fly. (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark)
Fruit Fly Research: Link to Human Sleep Disorders
If you're suffering from a sleep disorder, then you'll want to know the kind of research that...
Molecular geneticist Joanna Chiu at work in her lab at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In the Thick of Fruit Flies
Roger Vargas is in the thick of fruit-fly research and he probably wishes those insects would thin...
Roger Vargas
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