Insomniac flies resemble sleep-deprived humans
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 23:14
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have created a line of fruit flies that may someday help shed light on the mechanisms that cause insomnia in humans. The flies, which only get a small fraction of the sleep of normal flies, resemble insomniac humans in several ways.