Transgenic Fruit Fly (IMAGE)

University of Chicago Medical Center

Transgenic Fruit Fly

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A transgenic fruit fly engineered to carry the alcohol dehydrogenase gene as it existed about 4 million years ago. Thousands of these 'ancestralized' flies were bred and studied for their ability to metabolize alcohol and to survive on an alcohol-rich food source.

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Kathleen Gordon

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