09 May 2010

A day in the life: Fly Boy

Things are going well with Ben’s research. The big huge experiment that we started in December is almost finished. There were 2 flies that outlived all the rest and acquired names: Ponce and Methuselah. My parents regularly inquire about them, right after asking about Ani. But now we're just down to 1: Ponce (who, by the way, is female).


Having proven that we can survive an experiment that size, he and his honours student (Sarsha) decided it would be a good idea to run an experiment 4 times bigger. They just finished setting that up. So all is well in Fly-land, but very busy. That's a lot of mouths to feed.

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