#fruit-flies

Light and smells can turn flies into remote-controlled near-automatons.

Fruit flies can be made to act like miniature robots

Do women age differently from men?

The life expectancy of women is significantly higher than that of men. However, women also suffer more often from age-related diseases and adverse drug reactions. “Our long-term goal is to make men live as long as women and also women as healthy as men in late life. But for that, we need to understand where the differences come from,” explains Yu-Xuan Lu, one of the leading authors of the…

5X5 – 4. CROP PROTECTION

1 • Brazilian Government Prepares National Program to Fight the Fruit Fly

"One of the main fruit pest in Brazil, the fruit fly should be tackled in the country through a national program made by the Plant Health Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply. The goal is to integrate existent initiatives for the control, eradication and surveillance of several species of the…

5X5 – 4. CROP PROTECTION

1 • Bayer Appoints New Product Manager | AgroNews

"Steve Bishop is the new Product Manager for professional products at Bayer CropScience. He joins after five successful years at Polypipe, and says he sees his new role as offerning an opportunity to combine his educational and commercial skills to best advantage.

Steve achieved an Agriculture and Food Science BSc degree at Nottingham University…