Fruit Flies as the name indicates fruit & flies, they are like a little flies(Even though it’s a small fly but it has won six Nobel prizes & has been considered as a model organism) which loves fruity smell and it will always be found around things like fruit or fruity fragrances.
Where these flies can be found?
How to identify a fly,how to differentiate fruit flies from other flies ?
How to trap fruit flies? what are the things to be required to trap them? where to set the trap?
Circadian study? using open bait,
what are our results?
Trapping of fruit flies.
Home made culture media to culture trapped fruit flies.
Collaborators.
6 Nobel Prizesfor “Physiology or Medicine” to 10 scientists for ground-breaking work in Drosophila :
Amino acid disorders (AADs) are a large group of rare inherited conditions that collectively impact one in 6500 live births, often resulting in rapid neurological decline and death during infancy. For several AADs, including phenylketonuria, dietary modification prevents physiological deterioration and ameliorates symptoms. Despite this remarkable potential for treatment success, dietary therapy for most AADs remains largely unexplored. Although animal models have provided novel insights into AAD mechanisms, few have been used for therapeutic diet discovery. Here, we find that of all the animal models, Drosophila is particularly well suited for nutrigenomic disease modelling, having amino acid pathways conserved with humans, exceptional genetic tractability, and the unique availability of a synthetic customisable diet.
