Alcoholic Flies Show Human-like Desperation, Relapses

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 19:21 in Biology & Nature

Turned into alcoholics for science, fruit flies would seemingly drink almost anything for a buzz and relapsed after going cold turkey—findings that researchers hope might lead to new addiction therapies for humans.

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