Fruit fly midguts provide human abdomen acumen
Thursday, July 4, 2013 - 07:50
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Nicolas Buchon, associate professor of entomology, is giving the fruit fly research community a lot to digest: a detailed molecular and anatomical atlas of the fruit fly digestive tract. The results, published in the May 30 issue of Cell Reports, are accompanied by a new website to help researchers explore health and disease in this complex organ.