It was always my dream that the drosophila (fruit fly) adipose gene would turn out to be a model for controlling obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Because much of the genome of Drosophila is Shared with human beings, learning how nuclear organization is controlled in the fruit fly can apply to human disorders like birth defects and cancer.

While the antics of Drosophila melanogaster, as the fruit fly is known in scientific circles, may seem irrelevant at first blush, they are anything but.