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Why Zebrafish is my favorite model ?
Drosophila melanogaster, yeah they are ‘Geneticist’s best friend’. They have indeed been the first model of choice ages ago and still remains as a valuable model to solve the conundrums in developmental biology. The fly people who revolutionized and updated…
Drosophila – The Geneticist’s best friend
“We stand in the presence of riddles, but not without the hope of solving them. And riddles with the hope of solutions- what more can a scientist desire?”-Hans Spemann (Nobel Prize, 1935) TH Morgan in his FLy Lab One of…
Fly Fish Worm! Who’s my model ?
Thomas Hunt Morgan in his FLy Lab It all began a century ago, when genetics was not even a defined field of study, T H Morgan was busy with fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) in a 16 X 23 ft room…