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Fruit Flies Are Essential to Science. So Are the Workers Who Keep Them Alive.

The rooms that make up the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center at Indiana University are lined wall to wall with identical shelves. Each shelf is filled with uniform racks, and each rack with indistinguishable glass vials. The tens of thousands of fruit fly types within the vials, though, are each magnificently …

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This S’pore Agritech Startup Is Breeding Black Flies In Smart Farms To Combat Global Warming

Calls for cost-effective agritech solutions are growing in Southeast Asia. In a report released by PwC, Rabobank and Temasek, it stated that the agriculture industry may be unable to keep up with Asia’s rapid urbanisation. At the same time, global warming and a worldwide pandemic has increased food insecurity. Singapore, …

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