New research shows humans aren’t the only ones who can turn irritable and aggressive between meals. Findings from the University of East Anglia (UEA) show ‘hangry’ behavior in male Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies, during increasingly prolonged periods of food deprivation. The flies, which feed on decaying fruit, grew ever more combative the longer […]
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#Shellonchallenge: Anything with a shell to eat the health can damage also
Everything with a bowl of food: the Health risks of new Trend #shellonchallenge In the past few years have been widely used in the Internet, it is always different Challenges that could even have life-threatening consequences. Currently, the #makes shellonchallenge the round. The aim is to eat foods with peel. Consumer advocates point to the […]
Basic research in fruit flies leads to potential drug for diseases afflicting millions
River blindness and elephantiasis are debilitating diseases caused by parasitic worms that infect as many as 150 million people worldwide. They are among the “neglected tropical diseases” for which better treatments are desperately needed. But they were far from the mind of cell biologist William Sullivan when he began studying the microbial parasite Wolbachia, best […]