Whether you’re a football fan or not, the Superbowl is just over a week away and chances are, you’ll be watching it with friends. And by “watching” we generally mean stuffing ourselves with food and drink and caring just enough about the game to see if we won the lab pool. Regardless, if we’re invited somewhere, we’d better not show up empty-handed. Don’t worry- we’ve got you covered.
Standing in front of a packed seminar room and sharing your ideas using Powerpoint is an important part of research. In that respect, Tim Lee is like any other scientist. Now, the fact that his seminars start at 10pm on Saturday nights and require a two-drink minimum- well, that’s a bit more unusual…
For some of us, Monday represents the start of a new week. For others, Monday might as well be Wednesday or Friday or Saturday, since the days just blend together.
Thanks for all of the great questions! We’re addressing three questions each month, so If you don’t see your question this time, keep an eye out for our future issues where it will likely show up! Send your questions to DearDora@benchfly.com.
By now it’s safe to assume the New Year’s hangover is safely behind us. Likely, so are half of the resolutions we swore we’d keep… (Why Do Your New Year’s Resolutions Fail?) However, one resolution remains alive – “to upload more videos to BenchFly!” So we’re here to help.
Before I became a librarian, I worked as a neuroanatomy and immunohistochemistry technician for almost 20 years. After I completed my library degree, I found that working in a research library affiliated with a medical school allowed me to stay in touch with the research community while giving my hands a break from benchwork. The amount of research at my institution that I am now involved with is more varied than in my prior life as a tech.
The mouse has been used for years as a model vertebrate organism and as such has allowed for not only groundbreaking work in the basic sciences but also the development of treatments, as well as cures, for many notorious diseases.
What is so impressive about microscopic nematodes as a biological model? Sidney Brenner first answered that question in his 1974 paper “The Genetics of Cenorhabitis elegans” where he introduced the nematode as an ideal model for studying genetics. The purpose of this blog is to enlighten the community about C. elegans and their contribution to science.
Only in the past three decades has Danio Rerio (Zebrafish) started to call the lab their home. Since then, they have helped in finding cures for cancer, understanding more about embryological (vertebrate) development, and vertebrate behavior. One lucky zebrafish has also gone where few humans have been: space. On June 22nd 1976 the space station Salyut 5 was launched, with one of the crew members being a zebra danio.
If fruit flies could have an ego and could understand their contributions to research they would be pretty proud little model organisms. They would walk around on your fruit like, “ha! How about that? Whose banana now? This is my banana now…”
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