'Diabetic Flies' Are 'Not Fine' But Survive (IMAGE)

University of Maryland

'Diabetic Flies' Are 'Not Fine' But Survive

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The fruit fly on the right, genetically altered to disable insulin-like genes and fed a high sugar diet, has symptoms comparable to type 2 diabetes in humans. It is smaller and less able to reproduce than the normal fruit fly on the left, but healthy enough for use in testing diabetes treatments

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Jingnan Liu and Hua Zhang

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