Fruit flies, though pesky in the kitchen, are invaluable in the laboratory. Their brains are built in remarkably similar ways to those of humans. Importantly, scientists have developed tools that ...

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 ...

"We humans are like fruit flies in that our gonads also generate piRNAs to protect our germ cells against transposons. We have our own version of the Traffic Jam gene, called MAF-B, which we can ...

"We humans are like fruit flies in that our gonads also generate piRNAs to protect our germ cells against transposons. We have our own version of the Traffic Jam gene, called MAF-B, which we can ...