Beating Heart of a Fruit Fly (VIDEO)

Duke University

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Duke University researchers captured this video of a fruitfly's beating heart (a long chamber along its back) while performing research on how genes control the size a heart will grow to.

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Matthew J. Wolf, Duke University

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