What's the difference between a human and a fruit fly?

Monday, May 12, 2008 - 21:42 in Biology & Nature

Fruit flies are dramatically different from humans not in their number of genes, but in the number of protein interactions in their bodies, according to scientists who have developed a new way of estimating the total number of interactions between proteins in any organism.

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