Fruit Flies have great potential in the bug-based cuisine market, just ask IKEA (more on that in another article), but who knew? At Cornell University, they are the lab rats of molecular biology.
Cornell University’s Entomology Department is where the action takes place…
…“A lot of what we know about human and mammalian development has been derived from studies on Drosophila (fruit flies),”…
…“If you want to study development, an organism that goes from eggs to fully mature adult in seven days is a lot easier to work with than one that takes 14 years,”…
…”Drosophila studies have led to advancements in such fields as basic biology, developmental biology and genetics across vertebrates”…
