When Harvard Medical School professor Dragana Rogulja wanted to learn how sleep deprivation affects the human body, she began by studying specimens from another species entirely: Drosophila ...

For decades, scientists have gleaned information from the antennae, brains and even ovaries of millimeter-sized fruit flies for medical research as varied as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, addiction, ...

For more than a century, the humble fruit fly has paved the way for many critical scientific breakthroughs. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...