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New study refutes how fruit flies developed their tolerance for alcohol


January 16, 2017

a bottle containing fruit flies Scientists at the University of Chicago, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Wisconsin-Madison conducted experiments investigating whether a molecular change in an enzyme gave the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly species its superior ability to metabolize alcohol. Full Story

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