I can’t believe my eyes!
As you may have gathered from perusing through my blog, I use Drosophila to study the effect of micro RNAs (miRNAs) on neuron development. This animal model is useful for […]
HIV resistant embryos thanks to CRISPR?
The CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)-Cas (CRISPR-associated system) 9 gene editing tool has been used to edit human embryos to make them resistant to HIV, and it’s making […]
You can call me cupid
You may have been lucky enough to have spent Valentine’s Day with a loved one last week, but were you a successful match maker like me? I was Cupid for […]
Female Virgins Wanted!
This week I spent most mornings and evenings looking for female virgins… don’t worry, I wasn’t looking for you! Instead I was trying to isolate adult female virgin flies from […]
How to introduce a scientist
Introductions are difficult. Even more so when you want to make a good first impression. We all have our standard few lines that we use to say our name, where we […]
