As a facility that supports large-scale screens in Drosophila and other insect cell lines, we get excited about reports of new Drosophila cell lines and related info.

We'd like to highlight two recent papers.

One report, a collaboration between Amanda Simcox's group, the DGRC, and our group here at the DRSC, describes new cell lines made in Amanda's group and characterized in a collaboration of the three groups. Muscle cells that pulse? Yes. That and other exciting new cell lines are reported in the publication below, and the cells are available at the DGRC...