Insomniac flies resemble sleep-deprived humans
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 16:42
in Biology & Nature
June 2, 2009 -- 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.