Wheel lets researchers measure fruit-fly exercise

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 09:44 in Health & Medicine

A device called the TreadWheel can be used to study the benefits of exercise on fruit flies, new research suggests. The researchers observed that across all genotypes the gentle TreadWheel exerciser helped to reduce the fruit flies' weight and increased metabolism, and improved climbing ability.

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