Method allows larger number of screens as opposed to models in rodents. Cambria Biosciences presented a poster describing a screening method for antiepileptic drugs that utilizes the genetic model ...

Roughly 60 million people worldwide have epilepsy, a neurological condition characterized by seizures resulting from excessive neural activity. Using a fruit fly model of epilepsy, where seizures ...

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 17, 2012 – UC Irvine and Brown University researchers have created a new fruit fly model of inherited epilepsy that's providing insights into the mechanisms underlying temperature ...

Four years ago, University of Iowa scientists discovered that mutations in the prickle gene in Drosophila were responsible for much more than merely altering the bristles on the fly's body to point ...