Fruit Fly Genetics Reveal Pesticide Resistance And Insight Into Cancer

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 05:06 in Biology & Nature

For being so small, fruit flies have had a large impact on genetic research. Thomas Werner, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Michigan Technological University, has bridged the miniscule and the massive in an effort to better understand the mechanisms behind several unique features of fruit fly genes. Over the past week, several studies that Werner co-authored have been published in PLoS ONE, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature Education. All are linked by Drosophila--a genus of fruit flies--and the insights that fruit fly genetics provide on human health, specifically cancer-causing genes. read more

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