The fruit fly cancer researcher who built his first prototype out of lollipop sticks and straws
Or perhaps those fruit flies are crowding a fermenting sourdough starter, or swarming a banana that’s about to become an unwanted mush pile. But, for biomedical scientist CaÃque Costa, fruit flies aren’t meant to be swatted—when studied, they’re where cancer breakthroughs may begin. “When people think of a scientist, they don’t think about a fruit…
