IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME
Scientists have figured out how to make fruit-fly sperm glow.
(Thanks to Phil Snyder)
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Scientists have figured out how to make fruit-fly sperm glow.
(Thanks to Phil Snyder)
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Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves (aka Brian D.) | March 19, 2010 at 06:51 AM
Oh great; now we can see Brittney in the dark.
Posted by: CJrun | March 19, 2010 at 07:08 AM
Why do they keep picking on the poor drosphila? When I was at unversity we bombarded them with radiation to make them sterile.
Posted by: Mot The Hoople | March 19, 2010 at 07:41 AM
from the story on the right: "huge sperm of ancient crustaceans" which of course wbagnfarb.
Posted by: mudstuffin | March 19, 2010 at 07:52 AM
"Now the Syracuse University researchers have gone one better, by watching the sperm race in real time, the journal Science reports."
Can't wait 'til this makes it to ESPN.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | March 19, 2010 at 08:09 AM
Back in the day, I had to take fruit flies home over Christmas break in high school while they matured in a vial. During the week, it was time to count them - male and female, curly winged, etc. The school wouldn't give the kids ether to take home so we were told to put the vial in the freezer for a little while, then quickly count the flies before they woke up.
Ha ha ha ha.
My mother was NOT happy about all the fruit flies waking up and escaping in her kitchen.
That lab report I turned in was, shall we say, mostly comprised of guesses.
Posted by: Cat R. | March 19, 2010 at 08:11 AM
Also from the Beeb, A Florida driver's license, etc.
Posted by: wiredog | March 19, 2010 at 08:19 AM
NASPERM races.
I just remember they kept the genetics lab in the basement and we always had bunches offruit flies bumbling around.
Posted by: Loudmouth | March 19, 2010 at 08:29 AM
Oh yeah, and it smelled of ether. WooHoo. Students bumbled around with the flies.
Posted by: Loudmouth | March 19, 2010 at 08:30 AM
The human applications should be interesting, if only for the adult entertainment industry. Also, it will make CSI much easier.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | March 19, 2010 at 08:44 AM
I used to think that scientists were just geeks. Now I'm beginning to think they're just nuts.
Posted by: nursecindy | March 19, 2010 at 09:16 AM
Clearly they did this because they couldn't find glow in the dark condoms small enough for the flies.
Posted by: wingpup | March 19, 2010 at 09:20 AM
If only we had this technology when Clinton was in office...
We would have known, up front, that the stain was indeed - Presidue!
Posted by: Bill | March 19, 2010 at 09:22 AM
Jackson Pollock, where are you?
Posted by: Hammond Rye | March 19, 2010 at 09:22 AM
Your fly is down. And glowing. There's a cream for that. Hopefully.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | March 19, 2010 at 09:25 AM
Bet those guys are a blast at parties, explaining what they do. (Girls edging away at up to 40 mph).
Posted by: Steve | March 19, 2010 at 09:27 AM
"Mommy, look at all the pretty Christmas lights on the dog poo!"
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | March 19, 2010 at 09:30 AM
"And, finally, this is my teen-age son's room. Please put on these sunglasses before I open the door."
Posted by: Hammond Rye | March 19, 2010 at 09:41 AM
Jazzy Jizz! Cums in two designer colors!
Posted by: bonmot | March 19, 2010 at 10:05 AM
She does have that pregnant glow.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | March 19, 2010 at 10:12 AM
"It's seeing ... sperm inside the female reproductive tract... That really knocked us out."
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Posted by: Kuhio Shores | March 19, 2010 at 11:02 AM
College parties will never be the same!!
Posted by: Phil | March 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM
You,
light up my wife . . .
Posted by: bonmot | March 19, 2010 at 11:36 AM
The human applications should be interesting, if only for the adult entertainment industry. Also, it will make CSI much easier.
Not to mention Maury Povich's job. "Jamal, you are the green one."
Posted by: O'Layzeeboy | March 19, 2010 at 12:32 PM
What's new about this? The Russians have had glow-in-the-dark seamen on their submarines for years!
Posted by: bonmot | March 19, 2010 at 03:39 PM
I was more interested in the invisibility cloak.
Posted by: oneblankspace | March 19, 2010 at 04:51 PM
Do they bet on the real time races? Like a sperm derby?
Posted by: Cheesewiz | March 19, 2010 at 06:25 PM
You gotta get your excitement any way you can when your life cycle is about 3 days.
Posted by: Loudmouth | March 19, 2010 at 07:40 PM
Scientists are perverts.
Posted by: Clankazoid | March 19, 2010 at 07:46 PM