For more than a century, the humble fruit fly has paved the way for many critical scientific breakthroughs. This tiny insect helped researchers figure out that X-rays can cause genetic mutations. That ...

The US President Donald Trump administration's broader $2.2 billion cuts at Harvard University have put a key biomedical research resource—the fruit fly database FlyBase—on the brink, threatening ...

When Harvard Medical School professor Dragana Rogulja wanted to learn how sleep deprivation affects the human body, she began by studying specimens from another species entirely: Drosophila ...

For decades, scientists have gleaned information from the antennae, brains and even ovaries of millimeter-sized fruit flies for medical research as varied as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, addiction, ...