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The Scientist has featured a piece by Abby Olena: " Bacterial Infections Disrupt Flies’ Sense of Smell: The temporary loss of olfaction stops the flies from eating any more of whatever it is that made them sick." The piece discussed work published...

Joyce Yu of The Francis Crick Institute discusses " Fruit fly 'cancer avatars' recreate mutations in tumors for personalized treatment: Using fruit flies to mirror the tumors of patients can help with difficult to treat cancers" in an article published...

Drosophila biologist Prof. Dr. Bart Deplancke (School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) has been named one of two winners of the 2021 Cloëtta Prize to researchers. Read more about the prize here. Read an announcement of the...

The Drosophila research community is mourning the loss of Katja Bruckner (UCSF), a leader in the Drosophila community. An obituary from members of the EMBL community appeared online here. A review article published days before Bruckner's death,...

The journal Lab Animal features an article by Ellen Neff, " Model matching," about the new Model Matcher resource from Shinya Yamamoto and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine. Read the article here.

A five-part "Metamorphosis" series on BBC Radio 4, hosted by renowned dipterist Erica McAlister, will feature an episode on Drosophila research. Episodes will be available online after they air. Check out the "Drosophila Melanogastronaut" episode here.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced that R. Lehmann (MIT/Whitehead) and R. Schüpbach (Princeton) are the recipients of the 2020 Francis Amory Prize in Reproductive Medicine and Reproductive Physiology by the American Academy of Arts &...

The Clear+Vivid podcast with Alan Alda features and interview between Alda and Drosophila researcher Prof. Cassandra Extavour (Harvard University), "How oskar the gene invented sex." Available on several podcast platforms, including this one.

On Dec. 14, 2020, the New York Times published an article about the dedicated staff who keep Drosophila stocks going at the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center at IU in Bloomington, IN, " Fruit Flies Are Essential to Science. So Are the Workers Who Keep...