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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From here, all that is left is a nutrient-rich goo, made up of a group of cells called imaginal discs. One part of the pupa that doesn’t turn to goo is the brain. Some scientists believe that ...

Scalebars: 100 μm Figure 2. Winners require Fmi in developmental supercompetition. A) Eye imaginal disc clones overexpressing UAS-Myc (>>Myc) and UAS-nGFP under control of the tub>CD2>GAL4 driver.

He is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London and of the US National Academy of Sciences The Morata's laboratory is presently involved in two major research lines, the study of the ...