Posted by javableue on June 15, 2006, at 8:11:30
In reply to Re: I hate fruitflies love ether, posted by Deneb on June 15, 2006, at 0:07:43
>We had to dissect out the salivary glands of the larvae to see their giant chromosomes. Good thing my hands weren't as shaky back them.
It's stuff like this which almost makes me regret not going for the BSc psych and neuro program at this one university. Almost.
We used something called fly nap in our class... I don't know what it was composed of exactly, but it was supposed to be less drugging (for humans) than ether. Let me just say that I wasn't too intent (or was I?) on finding out what actual ether did. Not a good condition for manipulating tiny creatures with pointy objects. We also killed a few from having left the fly nap in too long. Oops.
jb
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