Why the Fly? Harvard Medical School

For more than 100 years, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has played a starring role in biomedical research, revealing fundamental principles of genetics and development, illuminating human health and disease and earning scientists six Nobel prizes to date. Why do these flies continue to attract so much scientific interest even as research tools have grown more sophisticated over the decades? Get more HMS news here.

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