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Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies

S2015 · E13 · 21 Jul 2015

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Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University developed a device called the fly-vac to study individual behavior. Upon entering a chamber, the fly must choose to walk toward the light or dark end. A vacuum then sucks it back to the starting point, and it makes the choice again.