Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly, serves as a powerful model organism for studying tissue regeneration, particularly through its imaginal discs. These discs are clusters of ...

The fruit fly contains imaginal discs — small pouches of cells in the larva that develop into adult appendages such as wings and legs — that are known to regenerate after injury or ...

They leave key structures intact, like breathing tubes. At the same time, specialized cells called imaginal discs start waking up. Before the chrysalis stage, these discs were kept dormant by a ...