Using Fruit Flies to Help Solve the Obesity Epidemic

Randall Weiseman November 15, 2010 Alabama, Florida, General, Georgia

Fruit flies may be able to shed light on obesity and other diseases as researchers have determined that they get the same metabolic diseases as humans get.

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