Sentences with phrase «normal fruit flies»

The reason, reported in today's Science, is that fruit flies with a mutated methuselah gene live up to 35 % longer than normal fruit flies.

A gene drive turned normal fruit flies (A) into yellow flies (B).

Not exact matches

To understand that process, the Florida State group engineered a fruit fly to produce a mix of cells, some with normal Lgl and some with the altered version.

In particular, a team at the University of Queensland in Australia and Central China Normal University in Wuhan zeroed in on a Wolbachia strain that halves the life span of its natural, fruit - fly host.

They have created worms that live 10 times longer than normal and fruit flies that live up to four times as long.

And it seems clear that when fruit flies are either fed antioxidants or genetically manipulated to overproduce their own, they live up to 50 percent longer than normal.

«But fruit flies have all their histone genes in one place on the chromosome; this makes it feasible to delete the normal genes and replace them with designer genes.»

They also treated their mates with unusual courtesy — normal fruit - fly courtship looks like sexual harassment.

Using transgenic fruit flies, he and his colleagues in the Curtsinger lab demonstrated that the production of a protein called hsp70 in response to brief heat stress extends the insects» subsequent life span at normal temperatures (see «Survivor!»).

Embryos that develop from fruit fly eggs lacking the normal amount of Oskar protein are unable to form germ cells — cells that allow reproduction — and so the resulting flies are sterile.

Given his training in developmental biology, Raman focused the team to seek a novel drug target on genes important to the development of model organisms — fruit flies (Drosophila) and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)-- rather than on oncogenes that transform a normal cell into a cancer cell.

(Drosophila, or fruit flies, are a frequently used model for understanding human disease, and oskar is critical for normal development of fruit fly embryos.)

Graph showing sleep duration (in minutes) of wild fruit flies — long sleepers, normal sleepers, and short sleepers — artificially bred across 13 generations.

Earlier studies had suggested that animals — including fruit flies, dogs and mice — live longer when they ate about 25 percent fewer calories than normal.

Fruit flies who had recently been eating the artificial sweetener now ate 30 percent more than the flies that had eaten the normal diet all along.

Researchers from Harvard gave SOD to tiny nematode worms and they lived between 50 % and 100 % longer than normal, according to research published in Science journal.6 In another study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers genetically engineered fruit flies to have double the amount of SOD, and the fruit flies lived twice as long.7, 8»

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