Fake Sugar and Fruit Flies with Monica Dus

Published: Nov. 15, 2016, 2:53 a.m.

b'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.'