Researchers have found a new role for the transcription factor (proteins that regulate the transcription, or copying, of genes). In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named Traffic Jam, ...

The global birthrate has been in significant decline for decades. In the U.S., couples are deciding to have children later in ...

Scientists found that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields, adding them to a list with sharks, bees, and even the platypus. Since they are common in research, this opens new avenues of study.

The Department of Primary Industries ( PIRSA) expands its Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) program in the Riverland to combat ...

You can search for your property’s land valuation using your address or the property ID number from your land valuation notice. If you have not received a valuation notice, it could be because we did ...

Morgan's experiments are not only fundamental to our knowledge of heredity; they have also made an animal respectable for science, which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits ... Elevated PKA signaling also contributes to the shorter life expectancy of inc mutants. However, a reduction of PKA signaling further increased ...

says the family-run business was left with no alternative but to shut shop for good after it was found to be within a 15km radius detection point of a Queensland fruit fly. Despite the outbreak ...

The increasing risk of Queensland Fruit Fly (Qfly) was highlighted during a community forum held in Shepparton last night, delivered by Greater Shepparton City Council in partnership with the Goulburn ...

Sam Konstas ramped Gabe Bell (Photo by Steve Bell/Getty Images) That’s when Queensland eyes turned to the WACA where an unbeaten 165 from Victorian young gun Campbell Kellaway set the home team ...