Fly catcher robot to speed up insights into Alzheimer’s | Reuters

by Adriana Hamacher

07 August 2015

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PALO ALTO, California – Stanford University researchers are using the most sophisticated fly catcher in the world with the potential to speed up the rate of scientific insight into diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

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Adriana Hamacher Associate Editor at Robohub and the UK's Knowledge Transfer Network and a contributor to Economist Insights

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