New research using fruit flies reveals that Alzheimer’s disease impacts not just the brain, but the entire body. Alzheimer’s ...

Exploring the interaction between sensory neurons and drug aversion can offer clues to the genetic basis of addiction.

Cocaine-addicted fruit flies might sound crazy, but researchers say they could help us understanding cocaine addiction in ...

Researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies for the first time that can become addicted to the Class A drug.

In a new JNeurosci paper, Adrian Rothenfluh and colleagues from the University of Utah developed a fruit fly model of cocaine ...

Even when previously introduced to cocaine, Rothenfluh’s team noted that the insects routinely opted for pure sugar water ...

For the first time, researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies that can become addicted to cocaine.

Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing ...

Though simple, fruit flies are powerful tools for biomedical research. They reproduce quickly, are easy to manipulate ...

For the first time, researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies that can become addicted to cocaine. The flies ...

You’re seeing hundreds of images mosaic together to encompass the whole fly brain from tip to tip.” On a large monitor, the ...

The predictive model also incorporates an improved fruit fly optimization algorithm (IFOA) in conjunction with support vector machine (SVM) techniques. The actual instances of lost circulation serve ...