Fruit Flies Soar As Lab Model, Drug Screen For The Deadliest Of Human Brain Cancers

ScienceDaily (Feb. 23, 2009) — Fruit flies and humans share most of their genes, including 70 percent of all known human disease genes. Taking advantage of this remarkable evolutionary conservation, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies transformed the fruit fly into a laboratory model for an innovative study of gliomas, the most common malignant brain tumors.