 HHMI's
Gerald M. Rubin on the Drosophila Genome
In the lingo they’ve been known for the better part of the century as
"Drosophilists" or often just "fly people." These are the geneticists and biologists who have spent their lives studying the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, breeding it and mutating it and seeing what they can learn about the underlying genes. The work was pioneered by Thomas Hunt Morgan in his fly room at Columbia University in 1910. Since then, Drosophilists have published tens of thousands of papers on the genetics and biology of their flies, a body of knowledge far surpassing that on any other model organism. With the realization in the 1980s that the genetic mechanisms and control systems of the fruit fly are evolutionarily
conserved, and that what works in the fly almost assuredly... |
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U.S.
Falls in Physical Science Output:
Over
the last two decades, the European Union and Asia Pacific nations have
steadily increased their world share of the journal literature in the
physical sciences. In fact, these regions now surpass the United States in
output of papers in physics, chemistry, and...
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