A USask researcher and her graduate student are breaking the stigma around fetal alcohol spectrum disorder with the help of a fuzzy friend.
Dr. Sarah Wood explains that biologically and socially, bees are very comparable to humans. Because of this, her lab has exposed bee larvae to trace amounts of ethanol to mimic the effects of FASD.
“Honeybees look after their young cooperatively. They have overlapping generations, so parents and children live together in the same hive, and they have division of labour, so bees of different ages perform different tasks.”
Her lab has exposed bee larvae to trace amounts of ethanol to mimic the effects of FASD.