Fruit Flies

Does 'Not Tonight, Dear' Drive Men To Beer?

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 05.15.2012

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NEW YORK (AP) — Guys, when your sweetheart says "No thanks" to sex, do you knock back a few stiff drinks to feel better? Turns out fruit flies do pr...

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Bugs Do Drugs, And New Study Explains Why

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 02.21.2012

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Bugs do drugs. That sounds like a line from bizarro-Doctor Seuss, but it's actually the word from Emory University scientists--who say that a type of ...

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What Happens When Fruit Flies Take Meth?

Carly Schwartz | Posted 06.24.2011

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What happens when fruit flies take meth? Scientists at the University of Illinois sought to answer that question in the hopes of learning more abou...

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Addiction: Fruit Flies Create AA Group!

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

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Stanton Peele

Like humans, fruit flies that get intoxicated on alcohol can become addicted and keep drinking regardless of the consequences. indicate this phenomenon will allow us to better understand how alcoholism works.

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Housework After Sex, Not Sleep

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Michael J. Breus

I wonder, are there ingredients in human sperm yet to be identified that can chemically alter a woman's body? Help her to conceive? Prepare the body for pregnancy?

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Ryan Grim

McCain Repeats Palin's Attack On Fruit Fly Research

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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John McCain reached back into the presidential campaign on Wednesday to pull out a scientific critique that had first been made by his running mate, A...

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In Case You Weren't Scared Enough: Palin on "Fruit Fly Research"

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

Fruit flies are more than just the occasional vehicles for research relevant to human disabilities. They are literally the foundation of modern genetics.

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The Lyin', the Witch and the Wardrobe

Michael Seitzman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Seitzman

We can't afford to keep voting for ordinary because yet another snake oil salesman (or saleswoman) sold us on the idea that we should somehow be terrified of the extraordinary.

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The Palin Cultural Revolution

Ioana Uricaru | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ioana Uricaru

Ms. Palin displays the kind of anti-intellectualism that fueled Cultural Revolutions all over the world - from China to Cambodia to my own country, where about one million "elitists" have been killed in prisons and labor camps.

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