Fruit Fly Muscles and Your Friends' Health
I wrote this article to participate in the AWSAR 2019 competition. Turns out previous years' winners can't apply. So here it is for everyone. Consider the value your muscles bring to your life? Imagine for second, whatever you did since this morning. Now picture doing it without using any muscles. Unless you were sleeping and completely still, not a twitch or blink of the eye, you depended on your muscles. Arguably, working muscles are as important to quality of life as a working brain. Some people lack this luxury. Due to genetic mutations running in some families, members lose their muscles at different stages of life. This condition is called muscular dystrophy. A close friend of mine was training to be a fast bowler in the Ranji trophy, in his late teens. A decade since the onset of muscular dystrophy, picking a cup of tea, a laptop out of his bag or himself out a chair are formidable tasks. He would have made an excellent fast bowler. Maybe you know someone who has or