A few years ago, Toshihiro Kitamoto, PhD, and a colleague in the Biology Department, Chun-Fang Wu, PhD, noticed that fly mutants, which Kitamoto’s lab was using as a model of epilepsy, were significantly less susceptible to seizures when they were raised on the east side of the river in the Biology lab. It turned out that the labs were using different foods, one of which included milk whey. That observation led Kitamoto and colleagues to conduct a series of tests to see whether milk whey really influenced neurological development and behavior in fruit flies. (Read more)