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Fruit-fly Study Adds Weight To Theories About Another Type Of Adult Stem Cell

It turns out that an old dog - or at least an old fruit-fly cell - can learn new tricks. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that mature, specialized cells naturally regress to serve as a kind of de facto stem cell during the fruit-fly life cycle.

Olfactory Fine-Tuning Helps Fruit Flies Find Mates

Fruit flies fine-tune their olfactory systems by recalibrating the sensitivity of different odor channels in response to changing concentrations of environmental cues, a new study has shown.

Fruit Flies Provide Insight Into Bacterial Infections In Humans

Joseph Zabner and colleagues, at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, have used a fruit fly (Drosophila) model of infection to provide new insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying the virulence of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is a major cause of infections in individuals who are hospitalized, have burn wounds, or have cystic fibrosis.

Fruit Fly Gene Study Could Yield New Flu Treatments

Scientists may be able to stave off influenza infection by targeting one of more than 100 proteins inside host cells on which the virus depends. These potential drug targets are the result of a study in which researchers tested the ability of a modified influenza virus to infect fruit fly cells.

Even fruit flies have an orientation memory: Recall tested in a virtual space

In order to cope with their environment, animals must be able to remember the location of their destination in situations in which they temporarily lose sight of it. This ability, known as orientation memory, is found in primates and has now also been observed in fruit flies.

Missing gene renders fruit flies clueless about sex

A missing gene for a particular odour receptor leaves male fruit flies clueless about sex, according to a Duke University Medical Centre study.

Bigelow Tea Listens and Reacts!

FAIRFIELD, CT -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/16/08 -- As a great case study on how to listen to your customer through your corporate blog and website, Bigelow Tea (www.bigelowtea.com) has reinstated the widely loved Fruit and Almond Tea. After numerous comments came in from the blog and website begging for reconsideration on the decision to remove Fruit and Almond Tea from shelves, the company took note and agreed to offer the tea available only for purchase on their website.

Fruit fly gene study could yield new flu treatments

As they design new drugs to fight off influenza, scientists may not need to attack the virus directly. Instead, they may be able to stave off infection by targeting one of more than 100 proteins inside host cells on which the virus depends.

Kiwi Fruit DNA Sequences Released

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Biochemists Manipulate Fruit Flavor Enzymes

Would you like a lemony watermelon? How about a strawberry-flavored banana? Biochemists at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say the day may be coming when scientists will be able to fine tune enzymes responsible for flavors in fruits and vegetables. In addition, it could lead to environmentally-friendly pest control.

Biochemists manipulate fruit flavor enzymes

Would you like a lemony watermelon? How about a strawberry-flavored banana? Biochemists at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say the day may be coming when scientists will be able to fine tune enzymes responsible for flavors in fruits and vegetables. In addition, it could lead to environmentally-friendly pest control.

Biochemists manipulate fruit flavor enzymes

Would you like a lemony watermelon? How about a strawberry-flavored banana? Biochemists at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say the day may be coming when scientists will be able to fine tune enzymes responsible for flavors in fruits and vegetables. In addition, it could lead to environmentally-friendly pest control.

Evolution Of Fruit Size In Tomato

Domesticated tomatoes can be up to 1000 times larger than their wild relatives. How did they get so big? In general, domesticated food plants have larger fruits, heads of grain, tubers, etc, because this is one of the characteristics that early hunter-gatherers chose when foraging for food. In addition to size, tomatoes have been bred for shape, texture, flavor, shelf-life, and nutrient composition, but it has been difficult to study these traits in tomatoes, because many of them are the result of many genes acting together. These genes are often located in close proximity on chromosomal regions called loci, and regions with groups of genes that influence a particular trait are called quantitative trait loci (QTLs).

Missing gene renders fruit flies clueless about sex

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Sabah Art Gallery?s initiative to promote paintings bears fruit

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Surprising Truths About Fruits and Vegetables

A man shops for fruit at a stand at the West Side Market in Cleveland, Wednesday, July 16, 2008. Food prices showed a big increase in June, rising by 0.7 percent, more than double the 0.3 percent increase of May. Vegetable prices shot up by 6.1 percent, the biggest increase in nearly three years. Credit: AP Photo/Mark Duncan

Apple Patent: Stream Your Entire iTunes Library From Anywhere

Apple patents don't always bear fruit, but this one seems like it'll happen, and soon, actually. It's for accessing your entire iTunes library from anywhere—streamed to your iPhone or touch either via Wi-Fi or over the air. Basically, this future iTunes will sync the metadata for your whole library, and all the music and videos stored back on your computer ("virtual media items") will be totally integrated with the content actually on your device, so it'd be just like having your entire library on your phone.

Flypaper No Match for This Slippery Bug

A plant bug (Pameridea roridulae) sucks on a fruit fly, which is stuck to the extremely sticky leaf surface of the South African plant Roridula gorgonias. The insert images show schematic views of the assumed interactions between the sticky plant secretion (orange) and the chitinous surface of the insect (purple) with the anti-stick layer (yellow). Sticking to the plant’s sticky layer is inhibited in the case of the plant bug (lower insert image). Credit: Dagmar Voigt and Stanislav Gorb/ MPI for Metals Research

Molecular Switch Helps Decide Cell Type In Early Embryo Development

Researchers have discovered a central molecular switch in fruit fly embryos that opens new avenues for studying the causes of birth defects and cancer in humans. Writing about their study in the Aug. 12 Developmental Cell, scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center determined the switch to be a main tuning mechanism for instructing cells whether to form sensory nerves or blood cells in different parts of the body.

Galapagos under botanical alert for medfly invasion

were under a botanical alert Tuesday after a destructive Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly) was detected on the archipelago, the Agricultural Health Service (SESA) said.

A Roman zoo is feeding its animals a daily treat of frozen fruits to help them cope with the hottest early summer temperatures in 20 years.

A macaque of the Bioparco zoo in Rome eats frozen fruit to fight the high temperatures of the Italian summer.

Rome zoo animals get ice pops to fend off heat

A macaque of the Bioparco zoo in Rome eats frozen fruit to fight the high temperatures of the Italian summer.

Fly provides biotemplate for compound lens

Biotemplating experts based in Spain and the US have reproduced a fruit fly's compound eye in chalcogenide glass – a material with excellent infrared optical properties and good mechanical durability. Pleased with the result, the team is now busy exploring a wide range of uses for its ultra-compact lens.

Zimbabwe to Change Currency

Chipo Chivanze returned home with a basketful of cash after selling fruit and vegetables at a market in Harare this spring. An official inflation rate of 2.2 million percent means loads of cash are needed for even small transactions.

Do birds have a good sense of smell?

The nocturnal Kakapo one of the nine bird species in the study probably recognizes fruit according to their aroma. The same applies to the brown kiwi of New Zealand. Credit: Don Merton

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