Why it matters that scientists modified a ‘sexual’ fruit fly to be asexual
The fruit-fly (Drosophila melanogaster) has been among the favourite organisms of genetics researchers for more than a hundred years. Many years of intense research with these diminutive creatures have led to many breakthroughs in our understanding of biology and evolution. Recently, researchers from Cambridge University and the California Institute of Technology reported yet another such…
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