Interesting Science

Here is a collection of interesting articles highlighting the importance of genetic model organism research.
- Obese fruit flies increase chances for their offspring to have heart attacks. 
- Flies are fighting the flu
- Flies and individuality
- Flies help understand why cancer patients waste away
- Personalizing cancer patient drugs using flies
- Old strategies with a new twist: sterile insect rearing for pest and disease control
- Microbes manipulate fly behavior for their own sake
- Beyond mendelian inheritance: Gene drive promises insect control
- Fruit flies’ diet can help humans find a cure to metabolic diseases
- Fly escape mechanisms help us understand basic brain functions
- Flies to help with COVID-19 research
- Like people, flies can get depressed (and helped)
- Flies stuck home alone