Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies
Quanta Magazine - Season 2015

Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies ()

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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.