Fruit Flies, Diabetes, and the Slimming Gene ? Offering hope in the future for the treatment of Obesity

For several years, medical scientists at the Life & Medical Sciences Center of the University of Bonn, Germany, have carried out research into the genes of fruit flies.The common fruit fly is one of the most frequently used organisms used in biological research. It is exceptionally well suited to such studies because of their genetic similarity in so many ways to that of human beings and other mammals.They are easy to take care of, they mature and breed quickly, they lay many eggs, and have a life span of about 10 days, allowing several generations to be studied in just a few weeks time. A majority of the genes involved in diseases in humans have a similar matching genetic code sequence in fruit flies.United States also pursues

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