Recent work by Chinese scientists has revealed a novel molecular mechanism of how a totipotent chromatin is established and an orderly zygotic genome activation is controlled in early Drosophila ...

More recently, we have developed and validated a strategy that leverages Drosophila genetics to enhance the power of human genetic studies (Shulman et al. 2011). Despite the promise of genome-wide ...

The sequencing group at Celera Genomics Corporation has cooperated with the European, Canadian and American genome projects to demonstrate that a genomic sequence as large as that of Drosophila ...

Many insights gained from researching with Drosophila therefore provide important indications of how a process might unfold in mammals or humans. Analyzing the genome of a fly is easier than of a ...

A multi-institutional team of investigators have developed a catalog of transcription factor binding sites that regulate gene expression across the genome, according to a recent study published in ...

Similar to viral insertions in the genome, TE insertions cause mutations ... the same gene (e.g., the alcohol dehydrogenase gene in Drosophila), and when that happens, the resulting genes undergo ...

Cheers: To Drosophila melanogaster. It seems unlikely that we would cheer fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster is the scientific name), but some interesting work is being done with the pests at Washin ...

Most people see fruit flies as a nuisance. A scientist at Washington State University Vancouver sees them as the key to understanding evolution.