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Thousands of strains of drosophilia, or fruit fly, have been developed for research purposes at Cornell Research. These fruit flies are currently being used to investigate human diseases, and researcher Chun Han from Cornell's Molecular Biology and Genetics lab is developing a new research technique called gRNA-infused crossing over, or MAGIC, that will make this type of research easier for future experiments.

In this process, called organ sparing, resources are preferentially delegated to the nervous system at the cost of less important organs or tissues. New research now shows that developing nervous systems demonstrate this preferential growth even...