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Peanut butter can have up to 30 insect parts per 100 grams, and fruit juice can have five fruit-fly eggs and one or two larvae per 250 milliliters just over a cup.
The Six-Legged Meat of the Future Marcel Dicke 2011
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Somewhat similarly, and equally entertaining to seekers of horror - based thrills, the movie “Fly” dealt with a human-fly combination, the scientist himself becoming the experimental subject when a fruit-fly accidentally enters his “matter-transformation” chamber.
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I gave Palin the benefit of the doubt until she gave that horrible speech condemning fruit-fly research as "wasteful."
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Somewhat similarly, and equally entertaining to seekers of horror - based thrills, the movie “Fly” dealt with a human-fly combination, the scientist himself becoming the experimental subject when a fruit-fly accidentally enters his “matter-transformation” chamber.
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Russ rushes outside to get him more bugs, so Zuni can demonstrate fruit-fly catching.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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Currently we are focusing on networks that mediate patterning during the development of the fruit-fly Drosophila.
Archive 2008-01-01 Peggy 2008
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No need to even move to 'immaterial and contra-causal' – our current knowledge of physics alone is a big question with regards to determinism in brains, even fruit-fly brains – and that's what I was mainly referring to here.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Currently we are focusing on networks that mediate patterning during the development of the fruit-fly Drosophila.
Naama Barkai wins 2008 FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award Peggy 2008
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Myabe she thought he was calling to tell her that he was ending all fruit-fly research "over there in France" owing to her. .erm..incisive critique.
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But while they've been getting up the celebrity curve, their site has been growing in dog-years (or even fruit-fly years).
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