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Alana O’Reilly, PhD, and Dara Ruiz-Whalen, PhD of the Fox Chase Cancer Center and eClose Institute have been awarded the 2022 Genetics Society of America Elizabeth W. Jones Award in recognition of their "development of educational platforms that promote...

Drosophila researcher Margaret 'Minx' Fuller, PhD (Stanford University) has been awarded the 2022 Genetics Society of America Medal in recognition of "pioneering work on cellular mechanisms that underlie Drosophila spermatogenesis which led to numerous...

Science in Vancouver has featured a publication from the Verheyen and Allan labs on assays designed to uncover the impact of variants on activity of the human PTEN protein. Read the feature here.

Inside Science has published an article by Karen Kwon, "Fruit Flies Choose Food Over Sex When Deprived of Both" featuring research from the lab of Carolina Rezaval.

A Fox news outlet in Louisianna, USA, featured fruit fly research related to cancer in the segment "Fly Bayou: The tiny fruit fly helps researchers in the fight against cancer." Catch the video online here.

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...

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 &...