Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

Atomic force microscopy, laser ablation, and etching with a witches brew of toxic chemicals: sounds like [Zachary Tong] has been playing in the lab again, and this time he found a way to fabricate ...

For more than 15 years, our mission has been to catalogue the neurons of the optic lobes — the regions beneath the fly’s compound eyes — and to develop genetic tools to study them.