afeesjohn.bsky.social
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Why use #CRISPR in #Drosophila when RNAi works so well? Because for some genes well is not good enough.

Check out new preprint from the lab demonstrating a role for Vps15 in Wingless trafficking. Something that was missed in several RNAi screens.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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This video of ants solving a geometry puzzle can be used as an allegory for all kinds of things ... given the shape of item ... I am predisposed to interpret it as a very technical metaphor for how billions of brain cells convert real world iconography into perception of letters in the brain.
May 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM