Mariana Rodrigues

A yoghurt a day keeps the doctor away

The purpose of our experiment was to test the effect of probiotics on the immune system of flies. To do so, we first divided our wildtype Drosophila melanogaster flies into two groups. One group consisted of flies fed on standard (fly) food, and the other group consisted of flies fed on a mixture of standard (fly) food and Actimel. We then tested t...