Carbon Nanomaterials: Fine for Fly Food, Bad for Fly Coating

Friday, August 7, 2009 - 14:28 in Biology & Nature

A fruit fly walked into a test tube, got coated in carbon black, and lost its ability to climb. Sound like the set up for some bad science-based joke? Nope, it's the premise of a preliminary safety test for carbon nanoparticles . [More]

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