Toxic Flies (IMAGE)

Brown University

Toxic Flies

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Microscopy shows a clean foot and leg of a fruit fly (left), and a foot and leg covered with carbon nanostructures (arrows). Adhering nanostructures may have impeded movement, respiration and vision in adult flies but did not appear toxic to fly larvae that ingested it.

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David Rand laboratory, Brown University

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