Articles tagged "fruit flies"

Curiously enough, for fruit flies, alcohol can help combat parasites.

One of the best "people are just meat" things I can think of -- not Earth-bound deities, but terribly designed biological machines full of shit and blood and complicated collections of cells -- is a study :released last year:http://www.economist.com/…

How's this for hilariously depressing: male fruit flies who have their sexual advances rejected drink alcohol far more heavily than males who are regularly having sex. Yes, you read that right. New research from a team at UC San Francisco have di…