The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging. www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

Are you aware of our #Drosophila #art gallery? droso4public.wordpress.com/fly-art/

Fly art

The idea behind this page is to provide a platform where to collate any arty imagery, sculptures or poetry inspired by Drosophila or flies in the wider sense. This will hopefully bring some joy as …

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So happy that this long and winding story I've been chasing as part of two great teams, the @moitalab.bsky.social and @cmendeslab.bsky.social, is out now in BioRXiv! Take a look to see what surprising things fly muscles do when they're standing still.

Moita Lab@moitalab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thrilled to present our latest BioRXiv on brain/body interactions during defensive freezing behaviour! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). You might think that a frozen animal has, well, frozen muscle activity, right? Wrong! Underneath the still surface of a fly, something in the legs is beating… 🧵