These Fruit Flies Aged Faster After Seeing Death

These Fruit Flies Aged Faster After Seeing Death

Fruit flies that had seen corpses were shunned by other flies and even died sooner. Scientists looked into their pint-sized brains to identify the cluster of neurons responsible.

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