Field of Science

  • in Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • in A is for Aspirin
  • in Angry by Choice
  • in Chinleana
  • in Life of a Lab Rat
  • in Games with Words
  • in The Phytophactor
  • in The View from a Microbiologist
  • in Labs
  • in The Astronomist
  • in The Culture of Chemistry
  • in RRResearch
  • in Variety of Life
  • in Catalogue of Organisms
  • in inkfish
  • in Pleiotropy
  • in C6-H12-O6
  • in Rule of 6ix
  • in The Biology Files
  • in Memoirs of a Defective Brain
  • in The Greenhouse
  • in Disease Prone
  • in The Large Picture Blog
  • in Epiphenom
  • in Skeptic Wonder
  • in Doc Madhattan
  • in PLEKTIX
  • in The Allotrope
  • in History of Geology
  • in The Curious Wavefunction
  • in Sex, Genes & Evolution
  • in Moss Plants and More
  • in Protein Evolution and Other Musings

Using fruit flies' sweet tooth

From my article in Chemistry World:

Australian researchers have used fruit flies' sweet tooth to help in attempts to develop new sugar alternatives.The Drosophila melanogaster species of fruit fly has marked similarity to humans in its choice of sweeteners, a fact exploited by a team led by Anne Rae at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Queensland to aid the search for new sweeteners as demand for healthier sugar alternatives grows...read more.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Markup Key:
- <b>bold</b> = bold
- <i>italic</i> = italic
- <a href="http://www.fieldofscience.com/">FoS</a> = FoS

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...