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One hundred years ofDrosophilacancer research: no longer in solitude

Author(s) -

Santiago Nahuel Villegas

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

disease models and mechanisms

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.327

H-Index - 83

eISSN - 1754-8411

pISSN - 1754-8403

DOI - 10.1242/dmm.039032

Subject(s) - solitude , drosophila (subgenus) , drosophila melanogaster , biology , sociology , environmental ethics , psychology , genetics , philosophy , psychiatry , gene

When Mary Stark first described the presence of tumours in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster in 1918, would she ever have imagined that flies would become an invaluable organism for modelling and understanding oncogenesis? And if so, would she have expected it to take 100 years for this model to be fully accredited? This Special Article summarises the efforts and achievements of Drosophilists to establish the fly as a valid model in cancer research through different scientific periods.

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