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USC Stem Cell scientists start a buzz around fruit flies in hearing research

USC Stem Cell scientists start a buzz around fruit flies in hearing research
2021-03-16
(Press-News.org) Even though a fruit fly doesn't have ears, it can hear with its antennae. In a END

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