#fruitflies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fruitflies, aggregated by home.social.
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🦗🔬 University of #Sydney researchers found that house #crickets perform "flexible self-protection" by nursing specific injuries, suggesting they experience pain-like states rather than simple reflexes.
The directed behavior indicates a level of conscious experience previously underestimated in #invertebrates. The findings could challenge our approach toward #insects, supporting a growing scientific consensus on their complex cognitive capabilities.
👉 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/13/insects-feel-pain-research
#insects #biology #science #entomology #nature #research #evolution #neuroscience #discovery #ethics #fruitflies
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@eLife/116235479359504132
About the #nuclear #porecomplex (#NPC) #protein #Nup107 regulating broader #neuroendocrine functions in #fly larval #brains. The authors J. Kawadkar et al. (2026) in experiments reduced the Nup107 protein that enables #moleculetransfer between nucleus and cellular cytoplasma in #fruitflies using suitable genetic tools. According to the authors, there is a wider context between the protein and larval #developmentalprocesses based on the #steroidhormone #ecdysone.
© this text #StefanFWirth
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Live long and prosper: Chinese scientists find age-well protein in naked mole-rats
The remarkable longevity and disease resistance of naked mole rats are linked to a version of a protein…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #ageing #america #cancer #CentralSouthUniversity #cGAS #ChineseAcademyofSciences #DNArepair #Fruitflies #FudanUniversity #humans #Lifespan #mice #Nakedmolerats #science #shanghai #technology #tongjiuniversity #unitedstatesofamerica
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How do animal #brains evolve to support ecological specialization? Yaoyu Jiao & Trevor Sorrells explore a @PLOSBiology study revealing that #glia show the most dramatic changes in brains of #FruitFlies adapted to a toxic niche. Paper: https://plos.io/4js7Rms Primer: https://plos.io/42VHcHw
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@Subumbral Some summers ago there were so many #fruitFlies (because we keep the food recycling bin open in the kitchen), I had to catch and release them in bulk! 😆
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#Exposure to high levels of #ozone significantly #increases #MaleMale #courtship among #FruitFlies while making the #OzoneExposed #males #LessAttractive to #females finds a #NewStudy .
As #OzoneLevels rise due to #industrial #pollution & #anthropogenic activities, it can #harm a number of #species of #insects that rely on #SexDetermining #pheromones to find a suitable mate, it added.
#science #entomology #biodiversity #biology #ecological #environmental #research