Today, 6 different Nobel Prizes have been given to researchers studying the common fruit fly. A 7th could be on the way. The main findings are published in Nature.

Over the last century, nine scientists have won Nobel Prizes based on work done with fruit flies. Science News sponsorship position. Abolaji’s Drosophila lab is in Ibadan, the third-most ...

The first attempt at mapping a brain—a 14-year study of the roundworm begun in the 1970s, resulted in a partial map and a Nobel Prize. Since then ... This team's connectome of a baby fruit fly, ...

“With the fly wiring diagram, we have the potential for an unprecedented, detailed and deep understanding.” Previous researchers have mapped the brain of a C. elegans worm, with its 302 neurons, and ...

Biologists know that animals that mature slowly tend to live longer, but they aren't sure why. A recent study of fruit flies ...

scientists have used fruit flies' simple genome and short lifespan to decode mysteries of inheritance and immunity in humans with studies of Drosophila melanogaster nabbing six Nobel Prizes.

Fruit flies can be truly annoying when they are buzzing ... In 1995, three scientists won the Nobel Prize for their contribution to this new understanding. Eventually, it emerged that the entire ...