Scientists Are Now Using Stumbling Fruit Flies to Guide Them Towards Human Joint Movements

 

             Fruit flies have a lot of advantages when being used for genetics. They are cheap, produce quickly, small, and easy to maintain.  In the article below, these model organisms play a huge role when it comes to the recent learning and studies about the movements of the everyday body.
              The gene recently named "stumble" or "stum" is traced in the legs of the flies and has been  detected as a mutation. The studies done over the past couple months have shown that these impaired mutant walking flies seem to have the same impaired mutant walking gene in humans. Another article published in the Science Journal is a parallel topic of the stum gene and how it works with the mechanical aspect of the neurons.
             This article, published in Science Daily is exceptionally interesting and unbelievable. Using fruit flies, scientists are beginning to discover the essential gene that is needed for limb movements of the human body. Using the joint-angle data from the stumbling fruit flies, scientists may soon be able to replicate these discoveries from them to better our population. Treatments and preventions of diseases and disorders could come about from such little insects, which would be a significant accomplishment in the medical field.