May 20, 2016 at 01:27AM

Tody I Learned: 1) A couple of new fruit fly gene names: Htl (heartless) and Trol (terribly reduced optic lobes). Just a reminder, fruit fly genes are named after the phenotype that happens when you knock out that gene. Sadly, I find no evidence of a "moderately reduced optic lobes" gene, nor a "slightly reduced optic lobes" 2) You can buy pure E. coli ribosomes from New England Biolabs. Also RNA polymerase complex, with or without sigma-70. 3) About the "People Are Awesome" series of Youtube videos. Remember, all it takes to do something awesome is a very strong desire to do it and a willingness to try a lot of things to make it work.