“A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the same kind of insoluble problems as man.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
One of the fastest things a fruit fly does is take information from its eyes and react accordingly. — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Just listen to this: take two fruit flies and leave them in ideal living conditions for a year - equivalent to 25… — Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson Copy Share Image
“Fruit fly scientists, God bless ‘em, are the big exceptions. Morgan’s team always picked sensibly descriptive names for mutant genes, like ‘speck,’… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, in a few particular tissues of the fruit fly, these” — Chris R. Calladine Copy Share Image
My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image