The answer Dear Science supplied to the question: Where do fruit flies come from? Science has something to tell you, something you might find a bit disturbing. The flies [are] in the fruit from the ...

CU Boulder researcher Donna Goldstein seeks to understand radiation risk through a butterfly’s wings and, yes, the humble fruit fly In the 1940s, geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky flew over a cluster ...

Researchers have found a new role for the transcription factor (proteins that regulate the transcription, or copying, of genes). In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named Traffic Jam, ...

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The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting flesh ...