This looks like a “little purple pill” but is actually a fruit fly embryo undergoing a wave of cell division, traveling from one end of the embryo to the other. Look closely and try to guess which ...

Four graphs show the patterns of gene expression at 4 time points during early drosophila embryo development ... segmentation in the body of a fruit fly. You may take for granted the fact that ...

This time-lapse video shows the development of the nervous system in a fruit fly embryo as it transitions to the larval stage. Fruit flies have a high reproduction rate and a very short gestation ...

EPFL researchers use fruit fly brains and optogenetics to develop agile robotic systems, bridging neuroscience and advanced ...

The life of a fruit fly consists of four phases: egg, larva, pupa and fully-formed fly. At 25 degrees, the fly embryo hatches one day after the egg is laid, and it then lives for five days as a larva.

While transcripts like caudal (cad) and hunchback (hb) are ubiquitously distributed in the fruit fly embryo, another transcript called bicoid (bcd; Figure 1) is found only in the anterior part of ...

Fruit flies do not require much space and make few demands on their ... During this period, the insects turn into an embryo within one day. Thereafter, they pass through three larval and one pupal ...

In fruit flies, for example, a malfunctioning body ... still other genes that affect the positioning of cells in the embryo. While this sounds complicated, it is a far more elegant and simple ...

They also confirmed that a similar gene defect has effects on neural functioning in fruit flies, according to a study published in November in the American Journal of Human Genetics. Led by Hugo ...

Caption The researchers used advanced fluorescence microscopy to view lipid droplets in fruit fly embryos. Here, H2Av (fluoresced in green) is present in the cell's nuclei (the large blobs) and on ...

The females of the species use their hypodermic-like ovipositor to penetrate the torsos of fruit flies. From there, the insect will lay eggs on the fly. These eggs become embryos that then become ...