Sentences with phrase «normal flies given»

And the genetic makeup of the flies also mattered, because lifelong antibiotic treatment caused one normally long - lived mutant line to die at the same age as normal flies given antibiotics — in other words, its life span was extended only in the presence of bacteria, the researchers report in this week's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Not exact matches

But give meth to a normal fly and it can not attend as well.

Given his training in developmental biology, Raman focused the team to seek a novel drug target on genes important to the development of model organisms — fruit flies (Drosophila) and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)-- rather than on oncogenes that transform a normal cell into a cancer cell.

Then the scientists gave normal fly larvae a choice between two disks of sterile food.

Researchers from Harvard gave SOD to tiny nematode worms and they lived between 50 % and 100 % longer than normal, according to research published in Science journal.6 In another study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers genetically engineered fruit flies to have double the amount of SOD, and the fruit flies lived twice as long.7, 8»