The study, conducted on the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster, shows that macrophages detect nutritional stress caused by a high-sugar diet and send a signal to the endocrine system to delay develop...
Read moreA UAB research team has managed to track the behaviour of microplastics during their "journey" through the intestinal tract of a living organism and illustrate what happens along the way. The study, c...
Read moreBasándose en el estudio de la formación de la pata de la mosca del vinagre (Drosophila melanogaster), investigadores de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) y el Centro de Biología Molecular Se...
Read moreResearchers at IRB Barcelona identify a fundamental role of the JAK/STAT signalling pathway in the development and growth regulation of limbs in Drosophila. Published in Nature Communications, the stu...
Read moreResearchers working with flies at IRB Barcelona describe that the concentration of some small intracellular organelles determines the branching capacity of tracheal cells. Tracheal cells are analogous...
Read moreResearchers of the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, have published a study in the journal ‘Biology Letters’. It sugges...
Read moreIn the conference Drosophila as a model in cancer, 15 to 17 June in Barcelona, IRB Barcelona and the BBVA Foundation bring together a select group of leading scientists that use the fruit fly for canc...
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