Fruit fly steps in to fight human disease

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 07:49 in Biology & Nature

'By putting mutant genes from human patients into fruit flies, we've created the first ever fly model for this kind of neuromuscular disease,' says Albena Jordanova. 'Now we have the opportunity to unravel the molecular mechanism behind Charcot-Marie-Tooth, as well as to start looking for substances with therapeutic value'...

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