Fake Sugar and Fruit Flies with Monica Dus
Nov 15, 2016•10 min•Ep. 22
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Episode description
On this episode of The Show About Science, Nate interviews Monica Dus, PhD, a molecular biologist at the University of Michigan. She is an expert in fruit fly genetics and her research explores how high-sugar diets may lead to obesity by altering our brain chemistry. In this episode, she discusses how the brain "sees" real and fake sugar differently.
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