For decades, scientists believed a fertilized egg’s DNA began as a shapeless mass, only organizing itself once the embryo switched on its genes. But new research reveals that the genome is already ...

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilised egg as a structural 'blank slate' – a disordered tangle of ...

For many years, researchers believed that the DNA inside a newly fertilized egg began as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a loose ...

C, a tool that helps reveal the genome's structure during the first days of life.

Researchers have found a new role for the transcription factor (proteins that regulate the transcription, or copying, of genes). In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named Traffic Jam, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than a century, the humble fruit fly has paved the way for many critical scientific breakthroughs. This tiny insect ...

Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies, are convenient research tools. It is easy and inexpensive to raise large numbers of them, they develop quickly, scientists know all about their genome and how ...