Scientists found that fruit fly embryos can develop through multiple genetic paths, not just one. This challenges traditional ideas.

Their mathematical model forecasts the ideal body plan of a fruit fly's early embryo, suggesting that ... The fruit fly Drosophila, as biologists refer to it, is a widely studied organism ...

Four graphs show the patterns of gene expression at 4 time points during early drosophila embryo development. The spatial distributions of gene expression are represented in line plots for each ...

METHODS: That biological system is the Drosophila embryo, introduced to Gregor by another of his PhD advisors at Princeton, Eric Wieschaus, a developmental biologist. Gregor recognized that the ...

Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Ashburn, Virginia, USA / Spatially isotropic whole-animal functional imaging of a behaving Drosophila larva labeled with a calcium ...

Confocal image of epithelial cells during dramatic tissue flows in the Drosophila embryo. Images of cells with overlaid triangles that were used to quantify anisotropy in the tissue. Disclaimer ...

In Drosophila embryos, morphogen gradients provide positional information that guides the development of various tissues and organs. Recent research has focused on how these gradients are ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the ...