Researchers have uncovered a key role for a new type of cell in touch detection in the skin of the fruit fly. Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have uncovered a key role for a new type of ...

The fruit of Africa's marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic blue sheen ...

Right now, the pricier components of growth media – the nutrient-rich broth used to feed cells that will turn into cultivated meat – are typically produced by armies of microbes engineered to churn ...

Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies, are convenient research tools. It is easy and inexpensive to raise large numbers of them, they develop quickly, scientists know all about their genome and how ...

Fruit flies are excellent research models, in part because it is so easy and inexpensive to raise them, and also because they are so well characterized. The DNA of these insects is estimated to be ...

Fruit fly egg cells create miniature tornadoes in order to properly develop and function, and these tornadoes could be widespread in large cells of other species. The cells that make up all living ...

Tackling cancer diseases might soon ease with the realisation from various research institutes that soursop fruit from the Graviola tree is a miraculous natural cancer cell killer, 10,000 times ...

The changes that occur in fleshy fruits during ripening make them more sensitive than unripe fruit to infection by bacteria and fungi. The challenge for fruit production is to balance fruit ripening ...

To fight infections and heal injuries, immune cells need to enter tissue. They also need to invade tumors to fight them from within. Scientists from the Siekhaus group at the Institute of Science and ...

Eagle-eye view of apples with bruises - Daniela Buoncristiani/Getty Images It's been said countless times -- "one rotten apple will spoil the whole bunch." While the classic adage serves as an ...