How research on sleepless fruit flies could help human insomniacs

When it comes to sleep, fruit flies are a lot like people. They sleep at night, caffeine keeps them awake and they even get insomnia. Those similarities, along with scientists' detailed knowledge of the genes and brain structure of Drosophila melanogaster, have made the fruit fly extremely valuable to sleep researchers. Dragana Rogulja, assistant professor of neurobiology, is quoted.


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