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Article: Fruit flies effective in detecting indoor air pollution: Chinesescientists
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 16, 2003
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Fruit flies effective in detecting indoor air pollution: Chinese
scientists
SHANGHAI, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists recently
discovered that little fruit flies are very sensitive to poisonous
gases given off by household finishing materials, which harm human
health and are known as an "invisible killer".
As a type of eucaryote multicellular insect, fruit flies have
similar physiological functions and metabolic systems to that of
mammals and are very sensitive to air quality.
According to Li Shuguang, dean of the pre-clinical medicine
institute of Shanghai's Tongji University, scientists detected the
abnormal reaction of fruit flies to polluted indoor air through an
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