Drosophila
The common fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a human commensal typically seen hovering around garbage cans or the bananas in kitchen fruit bowls. These small flies have been model organi...
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Biologists Peter Lawrence and Gines Morata won Spain's prestigious science award Wednesday for their work showing that fruit flies and humans have much genetic material in common.Lawrence, a Britis...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Celebrex, an arthritis drug in
the same class as the recalled painkiller Vioxx, caused
irregular heartbeats in fruit flies and in heart cells taken
from laboratory rats, U.S. r...
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Drosophila
2 biologists win science prize in Spain
