Genetic Tweaks in Fruit Flies Reveal Insights into Cocaine Addiction
TL;DR
Scientists are studying cocaine addiction using Drosophila flies, which share many genes with humans, to better understand the disorder and develop potential therapies, as current treatments lack FDA approval.
- Scientists hooking flies on cocaine to study addiction: Reports WSYR
- Flies Hated Cocaine. Then Scientists Tinkered With Their Taste Receptors, And Now They’re Hooked IFLScience
- Cocaine Addicted Drosophila May Accelerate Discoveries Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News
- Researchers genetically altered fruit flies to crave cocaine Popular Science
- A Mutated Taste Gene Makes Fruit Flies Seek Out Cocaine the-scientist.com
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