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Flipping fruit flies in a pandemic

Started By OhNoNotAgain , Dec 16 2020 12:28 PM

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#1 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted December 16 2020 - 12:28 PM

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I dunno, just thought this was a pretty cool look inside a place that grows specialty fruit flies for science.

https://www.nytimes....lies-covid.html

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#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted December 16 2020 - 7:00 PM

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Very interesting read. I wish I had a job more like that.

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#3 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted December 17 2020 - 6:13 AM

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Very interesting read. I wish I had a job more like that.

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