Sentences with phrase «type of fruit fly»

To find out, the researchers used a mutant type of fruit fly that can't make CHCs.

Not exact matches

«Since these proteins are evolutionarily conserved from fruit flies to humans, experiments of this type tell us a lot about how their human versions normally work or can go wrong.»

Small flies: For this Kandinsky - like image, researchers stained cross sections of 20 fruit fly embryos with antibodies to reveal three distinct tissue types: muscle, nerve and skin.

Volkan is interested in how the many types of smell neurons come to be as a fruit fly develops from egg to an adult.

In analyses of 23 videos of five different types of animals (mice, fruit flies, ants, zebrafish [shown], and small tropical fish called medaka), the software was able to identify and correctly track individuals (color - coded trails) within those groups 99.7 % of the time, researchers report online today in Nature Methods.

Now a UC Santa Barbara researcher has added to that body of knowledge by determining how stem cells produce different types of «daughter» cells in Drosophila (fruit flies).

The researchers were able to trace the development of these two cell types with unprecedented clarity by advancing very powerful imaging techniques that are available in the fruit fly.

To investigate how synapses are strengthened, Littleton and Cho studied a type of synapse known as neuromuscular junctions, in fruit flies.

But in fruit flies, one type of gustatory receptor senses heat rather than smell or taste.

Researchers have previously demonstrated that yeast, fruit fly cells and some types of human cells grown in lab dishes divvy up proteins unequally.

Professor Robert Sinclair illustrates one of his examples of a biological system (the fruit fly eye) which exhibits tendencies towards both deterministic and stochastic development, where the number of cells is uniform, but the way in which they determine which type of light they are sensitive to appears to be random.

And work in fruit flies indicates that they can subtly alter their immune cells to deal with different types of microbes (ScienceNOW, 18 August 2005).

In the new study, the researchers explored the role of cell shape in two vastly different types of epithelial cells — human bronchial epithelial cells grown in the lab and cells within the living embryo of the fruit fly — and observed them as they matured over time.

The fruit fly and roundworm modENCODE projects have been designed so that similar types of elements in both organisms are being studied and catalogued in parallel.

But fly avatars won't work for every type of cancer, Cagan notes, as fruit flies do not share hormones similar to ours, so hormone - dependent diseases, such as prostate cancer, can not be recapitulated.

In a study, recently published in PLOS Genetics, Chiara Gamberi and her coauthors developed an innovative fruit fly - based model of the types of harmful cysts that can form on kidneys.

For example, they found that the genes cut and numb, among others, influence the identity and type of neurons made by their progenitors, and that the fruit fly gene atonal is implicated in vision and hearing.

Deplancke is one of three researchers who have begun organizing the Fly Cell Atlas, which seeks to characterize all the cell types in Drosophila fruit flies.

Here, Marianes and Spradling have investigated a type of adult stem cell, known as intestinal stem cells, that resides in the midgut of fruit flies.

There are many types of feeder prey items available today, including mealworms, superworms, waxworms, silkworms, fruit flies, springtails, flour beetles, and a handful of prolific roach species.