Summery
Black flies drink blood and spread deceases, but a entomologist at a college for Agriculture and environment found a way to study how this insect sucks blood. By studying these flies, and how they drink blood, scientists can use the same tactic in the medical field. So the small annoying flies that you might find in your house can actually be helpful to the medical world.
Impact
Because these flies are helping scientists, the advances in the medical field could be increasing.
Critique
Can this new discovery also help remove cancer causing cells in the human body, kind of like the flies removed the blood form body's?
References: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120409133805.htm
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I didn't know that there was such a thing as a fly that sucked blood. I figured it would just be a mosquito. Eww, that gross and creepy.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of medicines could they make from this? How will this help the medical field, i wonder? It would be really cool if the answer to curing cancer could be found in a common house fly.