These Flies Age Faster After Witnessing Death
“There’s a very special place in fly hell for me,” said Christi Gendron, a neurobiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Gendron earned that spot by researching how living fruit flies respond to the sight of dead ones. To study this so-called death perception, you need corpses; Gendron and colleagues use starvation to get theirs. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times This morbid work, published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Biology, revealed groups of neurons in t