Two thirds of the genes in humans are found in fruit flies.

If organ size is not regulated properly, you have cancer.

Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana.

In fact, we found that more than two-thirds were highly satisfied with their service.

Richard wrote a diary entry in his head.

Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home, and a life that made sense. (Well, as much as any life makes sense). Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement, and I tried to be a Good Samaritan. Now I've got no fiancée, no home, no job, and I'm walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal fruitfly.

We were just blown away when we found those two genes expressed in those cells,