What the fly's nose tells the fly's brain.

What can fruit flies teach us about karate?

Understanding the logic behind how a fruit fly's brain tells it to groom its body parts in a stereotyped order might help us understand other behaviours that also involve a series of actions.

Respiratory Physiology: Strange Cycles and the Fruit-Fly's Tongue

Drosophila in flight show an unexpected cyclicity in gas exchange even at constant metabolic flux rates--perhaps because regular proboscis extensions assist in providing oxygen to the fly's brain.

This Is Your Fly's Brain on Drugs

More than apples and oranges - Detecting cancer with a fruit fly's antenna

Cancer cells and non-cancer cells differ in their metabolism and they emit distinct volatile compound profiles, allowing to recognise cancer cells by their scent. Insect odorant receptors are excellent chemosensors with high sensitivity and a broad receptive range unmatched by current gas sensors. We thus investigated the potential of utilising the fruit fly's olfactory system to detect cancer ...

Bio-Benchmarking of Electronic Nose Sensors

BACKGROUND Electronic noses, E-Noses, are instruments designed to reproduce the performance of animal noses or antennae but generally they cannot match the discriminating power of the biological original and have, therefore, been of limited utility. The manner in which odorant space is sampled is a critical factor in the performance of all noses but so far it has been described in detail only f...