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The model organism episodes continue, this week featuring fruit flies! Those pesky buggers do more than just populate your banana bowl. Tune in to hear us interview a grad student about what makes fruit flies such a popular model organism and the cool things we can research by using them. Join us, as we find yet another organism name we can't pronounce.

TimeStamps:

0:00: Crazy Science and Woman in Science

7:20: Intro to flies

12:40: Interview with Marianne Mercer

Links:

Artificial Heart:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220422184956.htm

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm3791

Marianne's Paper:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.710186/full