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First in Fly

Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery

Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr

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$39.00 • £33.95 • €35.95

ISBN 9780674971011

Publication Date: 03/09/2018

272 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

21 line illustrations, 1 table

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Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr is Lecturer on Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

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Listen to the podcast Curiosity Daily’s multipart “Fruit Fly Friday” interview series with Stephanie Mohr: Part I: Fruit Fly Research Essentials | Part II: How Fruit Flies Are Like Humans | Part III: New Treatments via Fruit Flies | Part IV: Fruit Fly Facts
On WNPR (Connecticut Public Radio)’s Where We Live, listen to Mohr discuss why flies are important to scientists as well as to the environment
On BYU Radio’s Top of Mind, listen to Mohr explain why instead of swatting at fruit flies, we should offer them a reverent “thank you” for revealing critical insights about human health
On WHYY’s The Pulse, listen to Mohr discuss modern humans’ complicated relationship with lab animals and how fruit flies contribute to today’s discoveries in genetics
At Zócalo Public Square, read Mohr’s argument that fruit flies are the new lab rats
On the Science podcast Books, et al., listen to Mohr share highlights from the many profound contributions to modern science made possible by fruit fly research
Read an Atlantic appreciation of First in Fly and the “full scope of fruit-fly research”
On the Irish radio program Moncrieff, listen to Mohr explain why fruit fly research can be so illuminating for humans [starts ¾ through Part 1]
Read an interview with Mohr at Harvard Medical School News
At the HUP Blog, read a brief excerpt from First in Fly describing the simple flytrap employed by Mohr and other researchers to capture rogue flies
Visit the Drosophila Models of Human Disease blog, founded by Mohr to provide information to the biological and biomedical research fields about the use of Drosophila melanogaster to study human diseases and disease-related topics

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