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Framed Embroidery Kidney

Opinion: Can organs have a sexual identity?

24 Feb 2016

Golnar Kolahgar (Gurdon Institute) discusses the suggestion that the stem cells which allow our organs to grow “know” their own sexual identity.

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Actin cables in Drosophila nurse cells during late-oogenesis. At this stage, nurse cells die and extrude their cytoplasm into the developing oocyte.

Opinion: How fruit flies can help keep African scientists at home

15 Feb 2016

Timothy Weil (Department of Zoology) and Silvia Muñoz-Descalzo (University of Bath) discuss the project that aims to make the fruit fly a model...

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African universities reap fruits of fly research

10 Jul 2015

Fruit flies are proving the unlikely source of a new initiative to help improve postgraduate research opportunities in Africa, with the support of...

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The reproductive machinery of Drosophila melanogaster. Two ovaries (upper right) connected by the oviduct.

How close are you to a fruit fly?

08 Jul 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, F is for...

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Scientists wake up to causes of sleep disruption in Alzheimer’s disease

27 Feb 2014

New research using fruit flies with Alzheimer’s protein finds that the disease doesn’t stop the biological clock ticking, but detaches it from the...

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Summer school participant

On the fly: African summer school on insect neuroscience

26 Apr 2013

A programme created by Cambridge researchers is teaching African scientists how insects can be powerful yet inexpensive model systems in...

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World first for fly research

15 Feb 2013

A how-to manual for fruit fly research has been created.

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