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Researchers explore the effects of heat on sleep
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 20 (ANI): Neurobiologists discovered that fruit flies are pre-programmed to take a nap in the middle of the day. The new research examines a 'thermometer' circuit for hot temperatures.
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Study reveals why heat makes us sleepy
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 19 (ANI): Neurobiologists have found that fruit flies are pre-programmed to take a nap in the middle of the day. The new article explores a 'thermometer' circuit for hot temperatures.
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Ageing neutralizes sex differences in the brain, suggests study
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Linkoping [Sweden], August 14 (ANI): A team of researchers from Linkoping University suggested that male and female fruit flies' brains become desexualized as they age. Both sexes endure age-related changes, however, the male brain gets more feminised than the female brain becomes masculine.
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Ageing neutralizes sex differences in the brain: Study
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Linkoping [Sweden], August 10 (ANI): Fruit flies' brains become desexualized as they get older, both male and female. Both sexes experience age-related changes, but the male brain becomes more feminized to a larger extent than the female brain becomes masculine. A study conducted by a res
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Scientists develop wireless activation of specific brain circuits in fruit
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): According to a recent study, a group of researchers developed wireless technology to remotely activate specific brain circuits in fruit flies in just one second.
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Neuroengineers use magnetic fields to activate neurons in fruit flies: Res
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): Neuroengineers have created wireless technology to remotely activate brain circuits. Researchers showed they could control the behaviour of freely moving fruit flies using magnetic signals that activated genetically engineered neurons causing the flies to perf
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Scientists need to rethink which genes linked to ageing process: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): Researchers at the National Institutes of Health fed antibiotics to fruit flies to better understand the role of bacteria in health and disease. They monitored the lifetime activity of hundreds of genes that scientists have traditionally thought control ageing
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Study suggests scientists may need to rethink which genes control ageing
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): To better understand the role of bacteria in health and disease, researchers from the National Institutes of Health fed fruit flies antibiotics and monitored the lifetime activity of hundreds of genes that scientists have traditionally thought control ageing.
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Scientists find mechanism linking neurodegenerative diseases with traumati
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 5 (ANI): According to a recent study on fruit flies, and rat and human brain tissue, scientists have revealed a potential mechanism for how traumatic brain injury leads to neurodegenerative diseases.
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Scientists identify mechanism linking traumatic brain injury to neurodegen
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 2 (ANI): Scientists have revealed a potential mechanism for how traumatic brain injury leads to neurodegenerative diseases, according to a study in fruit flies, and rat and human brain tissue, published in the journal eLife.
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Lipid droplets help protect kidney cells from damage: Study
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 18 (ANI): Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found out how microscopic structures called lipid droplets may help to prevent a high-fat diet causing kidney damage. The work in fruit flies, published in PLoS Biology opens up a new research avenue for developing be
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Researchers find better diet, glucose uptake in the brain lead to longer l
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], January 16 (ANI): Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that fruit flies with genetic modifications to enhance glucose uptake have significantly longer lifespans.
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