Onderzoeker gebruikt fruitvliegjes voor kankeronderzoek met zelfgebouwde apparatuur

Biomedical scientist Caíque Costa uses fruit flies to study cancer genetics, leveraging their 85% genetic overlap with humans in disease-related genes. He founded FlyFast in 2024 to address a major bottleneck in fly research: the labor-intensive process of feeding thousands of flies. Costa's company has already filed a patent for technology aimed at streamlining this tedious but crucial aspect of scientific work, potentially accelerating cancer research breakthroughs.