BYU professor Tim Jenkins and Ph.D. student Chad Pollard have found a way to detect markers for neurodegenerative diseases, ...

A study led by Nikita Komarov and Simon Sprecher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, has discovered neurons in the fly ... corresponding to days-old decaying fruit—they dig in.

Researchers have found that maggots (fly larvae) also have neurons dedicated to textures ... observing whether they gravitated toward softer, decaying fruit compared to the harder, fresh fruit.