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Understanding the cell waste disposal problems in Lou Gehrig’s disease

March 12, 2019March 12, 2019ALS, Alzheimer's Disease, autophagy, Drosophila, fruit fly, Lou Gehrig's disease, lysosomes, proteasome, Research, ubiquilin

Building up cellular waste is bad news for cells, and particularly for neurons. Such excessive build up can lead to neurological conditions, as is the

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Image of the Month: Snapshot of eye development in the fruit fly

November 1, 2018November 1, 2018congenital bilateral cataracts, DNMBP, Drosophila, fruit fly, Research

In his lab at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Hugo Bellen and his colleagues work with the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a model system

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The humble fruit fly continues to boost biomedical discovery

April 5, 2018April 27, 2018animal models, CRIMIC, CRISPR-Mediated Integrated Cassette, Drosophila, fruit fly, genetic diseases, Research

For more than 100 years, the humble fruit fly has been used to understand fundamental biological processes and has been a crucial tool for rapid

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Image of the Month: Neuron-muscle synapses in the fruit fly

January 4, 2017ATAD3A, Drosophila, fruit fly, Genetics, heart conditions, low muscular tone, neurological syndromes, Neuroscience

Certain human gene variants of ATAD3A can cause rare neurological syndromes characterized by global developmental delay, low muscular tone and visual, neurological and heart problems. The