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Today's bonus episode features the full interview with Dr. Christina May, who shares her thoughts on the wonders of working with flies, and a peek into the effect of sugar on the brain.
Creator & Host: Houda Khaled
Link to the papers:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2019.04.027
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54530
Music by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue):
Castor Wheel Pivot
GriddleKake
*Minor correction: The human brain has closer to ~100 billion neurons, rather than a trillion - Dr. May's initial guess. Still orders of magnitude more than the ~100K in a fly!*
By Frivolous ScienceToday's bonus episode features the full interview with Dr. Christina May, who shares her thoughts on the wonders of working with flies, and a peek into the effect of sugar on the brain.
Creator & Host: Houda Khaled
Link to the papers:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2019.04.027
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54530
Music by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue):
Castor Wheel Pivot
GriddleKake
*Minor correction: The human brain has closer to ~100 billion neurons, rather than a trillion - Dr. May's initial guess. Still orders of magnitude more than the ~100K in a fly!*