The fruit flies had longer lifespans and stayed younger longer. So this seems to show that indeed, at least in some invertebrates, free radical damage is what causes aging. Ok, and there is another line of thought that at one point was used to support the free radical theory. It was ...
two things have happened. First, large houses take time to maintain, so cleaners and other low-wage service workers are required to keep these houses in order. Second, once-public spaces, where people from diverse backgrou...
using research on sleep in fruit flies as an example. At the time sleep was discovered in flies in 2000 next to nothing was known about mechanisms regulating
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Thefruitfly, orDrosophila melanogasterare a frequent subject of genetics research, and have provided answers on how genes function. Like the fruit fly, humans can also eat a wide range of food types, and are are known as "nutritional generalists." On the other hand, some genetic cousins of...
One reason why today’s quantum computers are not faster than supercomputers, he said, is because the quantum technology must spend time identifying and correcting its errors. Superconductors used in quantum computing rely on brutally cold temperatures — around absolute zero — and anything above tha...
Life, for most of us, ends far too soon — hence the effort by biomedical researchers to find ways to delay the aging process and extend our stay on Earth. But there’s a paradox at the heart of the science of aging: The vast majority of research focuses on fruit f...
monarch butterflies used to spend winter in California and Mexico only a few decades ago.Climate change,loss of natural habitat and harmful chemicals are just a few of the environmental threats that have caused a more than 99% decrease in populations since...
Why are we so enamoured with our booze? With The Drunken Monkey, Professor of Integrative Biology Robert Dudley puts forward the idea that it is linked to the dietary preferences of our primate ancestors who used alcohol as a cue to identify ripe fruit. Is this another evolutionary just-so ...
Why Are Bugs in Berries? Strawberry and small fruit crop entomologistSriyanka Lahiri, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of Florida, toldHealththat the tiny whitish worms are the maggots of a fly, commonly known as spotted wing drosophila (SWD). "It's an invasive species from Eas...