The mature eggs of Drosophila melanogaster contains information that determines the major axis of the embryo. This information is built into the egg during oogenesis and functions in the early embryo ...

A team has developed a method that cryopreserves fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) embryos so they can be successfully recovered and developed into adult insects. Cryopreservation, or the long ...

They all look alike under the microscope. However, each cell of a Drosophila melanogaster embryo already knows by then whether it is destined to become a neuron or a muscle cell—or part of the ...

Details of this work appeared August 31 in the journal Science, in an article entitled “The Drosophila Embryo at Single-Cell Transcriptome Resolution.” “We produce a virtual embryo with ...

The study harnesses data from over one million embryonic cells spanning all stages of embryo development and represents a significant advance at multiple levels. “Just capturing the entirety of ...