Flies like us: They can act like addicts, too

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 14:14 in Biology & Nature

When given the chance to consume alcohol at will, fruit flies behave in ways that look an awful lot like human alcoholism. That's according to a study published online on December 10th in Current Biology that is one of the first to consider alcohol self-administration in the insects.

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