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Prominent investor Mark Cuban has made a new investment in Perlara, a public benefit company that uses model organsisms, including Drosophila, as part of their efforts to identify new treatments for rare diseases. Read news coverage here.

An article by Kimberly Splinter and colleagues from the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine includes a discussion the impact of the Model Organisms Screening Center, which uses Drosophila and other model...

Drosophila researcher and head of the Manchester Fly Facility A. Prokop addresses the question of why fund fruit fly research in this recent post on Open Access Goverement.

Don't miss this article by Liz Langley and accompanying video at National Geographic describing the takeover of fruit flies by a fungus. Reach the original research article by Elya et al. in eLife here.