Biology Wednesday, January 25, 2006 . This is a SciScoop post by FreshTech
Fruit flies of the Drosophila melanogaster species are a favorite subject of study for genetic scientists. Fruit flies share nearly 60% of human genes and are studied by over 6000 scientists around the world. To find out whether a mutation of certain genes in the human genome would cause the same effect in a fruit fly, namely a heart disease, scientist would have to make a video of the beating heart of a fruit fly…
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