The take-off of Drosophila research in 1930-1950s Edinburgh.

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The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is a simple and powerful model organism. It has played a critical role over more than a century, for example in establishing the field of genetics, and in foundational insights into the molecular basis of development. From the 1930s until today, researchers at the University of Edinburgh have used Drosophila to tackle questions in basic and biomedical science. Here the...

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