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A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found. A fungal infection has been shown ...

Yet these reports had largely fallen into obscurity, and this fungus-fly pair would await rediscovery until the mid-2010s by graduate student Carolyn Elya. Today, Elya is a self-described ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly’s own immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found. In experiments conducted by a team of ...

(See the box at the end of the story for details about the lab's approach to fly care.) Last summer, Agans started working with Bateman on the fungus gnat, a species new to the lab. Agans described ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells, leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found. The paper published in PLOS ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly’s own immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found. The paper published in PLOS ...