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Fruit Fly Geneticist Bruce Baker Dies

Fruit Fly Males Woo Females with Three Songs, Not Two

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Male Fruit Flies Take Pleasure in Having Sex

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3-D–Printed Ethoscopes Lower Barriers to Large-Scale Fly Behavior Studies

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Q&A with Nobel Laureate Michael Rosbash

Behavior Circuits Mapped in Whole Fruit Fly Brain

Entire Fruit Fly Brain Imaged with Electron Microscopy

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Improving Cell Therapy Sterility Testing

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The Computer-Assisted Retrosynthesis Revolution

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Study Confirms Safety of Genetically Modified T Cells

A long-term study of nearly 800 patients demonstrated a strong safety profile for T cells engineered with viral vectors.

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Making Real-Time PCR More Straightforward

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