Outwardly, fruit flies and humans have little in common. It is all the more astonishing that roughly 60 percent of the fly's genes can also be found in humans in a similar form. Many insights gained ...

Another reason you don’t want your fruit to hang around too long: Hatching larvae eat “damp, decomposing, organic matter,” ...

They linger around the kitchen stealing bites of your produce ... There are many species of plants that fruit flies cannot stand. Flies, like humans, are attracted to some smells, but they detest ...

Buildup of a protein called filamentous actin, or F-actin, in the brain inhibits the removal of cellular wastes, including DNA, lipids, proteins and organelles. The resulting accumulation of waste ...

The fruit flies also have a short lifespan of six days ... "I don't think it will replace meat but I think it can actually...be part of the human diet in the future years," Feinberg said.

Known to bite humans and feed off their blood, mosquitoes are larger than brown or black fruit flies and have slender bodies ...

Understanding ageing mechanisms in flies may thus help explain what's happening in humans as well, they said. The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Discoveries that impact lifespan and healthspan in fruit flies are usually tested in mice before being considered potentially relevant in humans, a process that is expensive and time intensive.

Fruit flies are small yellow-to-light-brown flies ... Your chance of getting ill from a tick bite is low, but it’s important to remove them properly to reduce the risk of Lyme disease and ...

Only three molecular changes are needed for fruit flies to digest milkweed toxins Gene-edited fruit flies have gained some of monarch butterflies’ superpowers — specifically, the ability to ...