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Fruit fly wing research offers window into birth defects - EurekAlert


If fruit fly wings do not develop into the right shape, the flies will die. UC Riverside researchers have learned how fly embryo cells develop as they need to, opening a window into human development and possible treatments for birth defects.  

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