Caltech researchers pinpoint neurons that control obesity in fruit flies
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 12:14
in Biology & Nature
PASADENA, Calif. -- A team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have pinpointed two groups of neurons in fruit fly brains that have the ability to sense and manipulate the fly's fat stores in much the same way as do neurons in the mammalian brain.