Neuroscientist Sung Soo Kim receives prestigious NIH award to study how brains select landmarks for navigation
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Biologists find a unique version of a filament-forming protein in human cells that insects lack -
Craig Montell finds that fruit fly gustatory receptors that sense a noxious compound is a cation channel -
Study finds that a mutation in fruit flies impairs fine motor control but leaves gross motor proficiency intact -
Researchers in Denise Montell’s lab used fruit-fly ovaries to uncover how E-cadherin guides collective cell migration -
A new study demonstrate how taste preferences can be modified by long-term exposure to a specific diet. The results suggest a general neural mechanism underlying food experience-induced changes in taste preferences. -
The findings provide compelling genetic evidence supporting the opposing behavioral responses to low and high salt in fruit flies -
A new study determines how stem cells produce different types of "daughter" cells in Drosophila (fruit flies)
