Healthy ageing - Why flies? | The Royal Society
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Channel: The Royal Society · 2012 · Science & Technology
We live in an ageing society and age-related ill health imposes a serious social and economic burden on sufferers, carers, families and friends. Scientists from the Healthy ageing exhibit taking part in the 2012 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition discusses why they work with flies.
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