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  "id": 2728244,
  "title": "Genetics of Cocaine Consumption and Preference in Drosophila melanogaster",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/genetics-of-cocaine-consumption-and-preference-in-drosophila",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-22T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.20.746013v1?rss=1"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Cocaine Use Disorder (CUD) poses a significant public health and socioeconomic challenge. Determining the genetic basis of predisposition for development of CUD is challenging in human populations but can be studied in Drosophila. We assessed cocaine consumption and cocaine preference of 74,875 flies from 598 sequenced, wild-derived, inbred lines from the expanded Drosophila melanogaster Genetic…",
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      {
        "outlet": "bioRxiv",
        "title": "A genomewide association study for bristle number variation in Drosophila melanogaster",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/a-genomewide-association-study-for-bristle-number-variation-in",
        "published": "2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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