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Why do they even need fruit flies to do this kind of study? How difficult would it be to find human subjects for this?
by ketanmaheshwari 5y ago
Why do they even need fruit flies to do this kind of study? How difficult would it be to find human subjects for this?
- MattGaiser 5y agoHuman subjects have a lot of rules around their use.
- amelius 5y agoIt takes much longer to test this on humans, because of the greater average lifespan.
- humanlion87 5y agoApart from the other points mentioned, I want to add that funding could be a potential issue for studies based on human subjects. More expensive and time consuming compared to studying flies. The general flow of such research is to test various hypothesis on animals and then move forward to human studies only for the most promising ones.
- hyperbovine 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board