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Nice clickbait. Full title of the article: > Daily blue-light exposure shortens lifespan and causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila Drosophila are fruit
by philpem 7y ago
Nice clickbait. Full title of the article:
> Daily blue-light exposure shortens lifespan and causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
Drosophila are fruit flies. File under "interesting, but likely not applicable to mammals".
EDIT: From front page to flagged in 32 minutes. That's impressive.
- JabavuAdams 7y ago> Drosophila are fruit flies. File under "interesting, but likely not applicable to mammals". Why assume this, without specific evidence? Drosophila are used as a model organism partly because so many effects transfer. We all run on DNA, and our cells all use protein and RNA machinery.