Hormone in Fruit Flies Sheds Light on Diabetes Cure, Weight-Loss Drug for Humans
Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
In a paper published in Genetics, neurobiologists at Wake Forest University examine how fruit flies (Drosophila) react when given a decreased diet. Since fruit flies and humans share 30% of the same genes and their brains are wired similarly, the findings could be key to developing new treatments for diabetes and aiding in all sorts of metabolic research, including weight-loss drugs.