Pass the salt – using the fly to understand how pregnancy drives food cravings
Researchers at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon discover that fruit flies share the human craving for salt during pregnancy and shed light on how the nervous system controls this…
September 25, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: champalimaud, diet, during-pregnancy, fruit-flies, human, human-craving, light-on-how, lisbon, nervous, nervous-system, oncalldiets, pregnancy / obstetrics, unknown
Research Team Uses Caffeine And Fruit Flies To Pinpoint Genetic Pathways That Guide DNA Repair In Cancer Cells
Researchers from the University of Alberta are abuzz after using fruit flies to find new ways of taking advantage of caffeine’s lethal effects on cancer cells – results that could one day be used to advance cancer therapies for people…
April 22, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alberta, find-new, from-the-university, fruit-flies, lethal-effects, oncalldietitian.com, taking-advantage, university
Fertility-Metabolism Connection In Fruit Flies
Dieticians will tell you it isn’t healthy to eat late at night: it’s a recipe for weight gain.
June 8, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: another-consequence, consequence, eat-late, fertility, fruit-flies, late-at-night, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldiets, will-tell
Latest epidemic? High cholesterol, obesity in fruit flies
How do fruit flies get high cholesterol and become obese? The same way as people do — by eating a diet that’s too rich in fats.
December 3, 2009 · by webmaster · in Nutritional News · Tags: fruit-flies, get-high, oncalldietitian.com, same-way, too-rich
