The Weirdest Things We've Done to Fruit Flies | Compilation

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Fruit flies are common uninvited guests in our houses, so you might not feel so bad about all of the wild experiments we put them through for the last hundred years. But man have they been run through the ringer.
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  • @SciShow
    @SciShow Жыл бұрын

    Visit brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription.

  • @bobsterclause342

    @bobsterclause342

    Жыл бұрын

    THAT'S NURGLES FLY alright. Yep. FOR THE GRANDFATHER!!!!!

  • @richy4368

    @richy4368

    Жыл бұрын

    14:04 Maybe the fruit fly immune responses to an increase in gravity is the same response to a increase in moisture in the air(denser atmosphere). High humidity could lead to more fungal infections. Like it might be a “dense atmosphere” response not a high gravity response. 🤷🏾‍♂️

  • @catebrooks6779

    @catebrooks6779

    7 ай бұрын

    I DO miss this version of Hank (as his child says, BI - Before Injury) but very much adore the new version, with many more years, we all hope, to come! Hank... keep the goatee? If the wife likes it and you do, too, oc... just: it's cool to let my mind wander into not really evil but still close lol hee hee hee to you taking over the world.... Which, if we look closely... might not be a poor choice! Ok, everyone with me now: HANK FOR... UM... WORLD LEADER OR SOMETHING!!!!😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @aleccandib5312
    @aleccandib5312 Жыл бұрын

    9:48 I’m a fruit fly researcher in a lab that studies aging and neural stressors, our wild-type (ie “normal”) flies typically have an average lifespan of 30-50 days, which is a lot longer than most people expect. But the gestation period (from egg through larvae, pupa, and to adulthood) is only 10ish days, so its still easy to study multiple generations very quickly. Of course genetics, nutrition, temperature, humidity, and a bunch of other stuff can drastically increase or decrease lifespan and gestation time. The longest lifespan we’ve recorded in an individual fly was over 100 days- that fly had a mutation that increased autophagy, which is a process the cell uses to dispose of protein aggregates and old mitochondria

  • @CL-go2ji

    @CL-go2ji

    Жыл бұрын

    Increased autophagy. Huh. Sounds energy-intensive, but otherwise okay?

  • @unnamellie

    @unnamellie

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CL-go2ji well there's a cash back of sorts iirc, you can reuse proteins you got while destroying bad parts

  • @mrmagoo.3678

    @mrmagoo.3678

    Жыл бұрын

    so you tortred and imprisoned whole civilizations of innocent Fruit Flies, so You could study them? Cool. :) I've never been s fan of the little b@stardos..used to infect my moms kitchen every year like clockwork.. clean and disinfect..and they'll be back in 2 days..lol.. I hope You made them sufer!

  • @supernerd1999

    @supernerd1999

    Жыл бұрын

    Same here, we actually have 2 different wildtype, one for a collaborator’s experiment and the lifespan are 25-35 days and 35 to 45 days

  • @ShyDigi

    @ShyDigi

    Жыл бұрын

    That’s awesome! I’m so happy my children (all flies on earth) get to live so long

  • @MichaelEnsly
    @MichaelEnsly Жыл бұрын

    Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

  • @papalosopher

    @papalosopher

    Жыл бұрын

    Classic!

  • @lolam4209

    @lolam4209

    Жыл бұрын

    i see what you did there

  • @jj_verona

    @jj_verona

    Жыл бұрын

    amazin

  • @micheal49

    @micheal49

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you, Groucho!

  • @demonatemu
    @demonatemu Жыл бұрын

    i remember we learned about genetics in my high school biology class and each group had a different mutation i.e. "white eyes instead of red", "no wings", "glow in the dark" etc. I was glad I wasn't the group that had "legs instead of antennae"

  • @Munchkin.Of.Pern09

    @Munchkin.Of.Pern09

    Жыл бұрын

    Just finished my last genetics lab of the semester last Thursday. We have the white eye, yellow body, and mini wings mutations. FlyNap smells AWFUL. My poor father who got an entire genetics degree only to go “Nope! I’m not dealing with this crap!” And then proceeded to do an entire new degree to avoid ever having to breed Drosophila again.

  • @aleccandib5312
    @aleccandib5312 Жыл бұрын

    Fly people are also very creative when it comes to gene names! Some of my favorites are: sonic hedgehog swiss cheese (knockout causes holes in the brain) I’m not dead yet (indy) fear of intimacy sex lethal skeletor smaug tinman (knockout causes heart defects) kenny (as in Kenny from South Park, knockout causes death in the first few days of life) cheap date (knockout causes susceptibility to alcohol)

  • @rebekahdavis5935

    @rebekahdavis5935

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing. I read your other comment on your research with fruit flies. Very interesting. I had no idea we were learning so much from them..

  • @jaymeselliot8181

    @jaymeselliot8181

    Жыл бұрын

    these are amazing

  • @BubbleyB99

    @BubbleyB99

    Жыл бұрын

    “Deadbeat” (as in deadbeat dad) is one of my favorite funny fly gene names (involved in sperm maturation)

  • @fartnutte1724

    @fartnutte1724

    Жыл бұрын

    these read like fallout perks

  • @peterkallese6967

    @peterkallese6967

    Жыл бұрын

    I remember reading how a doctor was feeling horrible as he/she had to tell would-be parents that their baby died in the very early stages of development due to a mutation in its sonic hedgehog protein (or at least thats how I remember it) - now said parents could go out and remember this horrible experience every time the cartoon character would pop up

  • @Sarafan92
    @Sarafan92 Жыл бұрын

    That fruitfly ejaculation experiment was the most hilariously absurd yet interesting experiment I've ever seen.

  • @Max-js1mx

    @Max-js1mx

    Жыл бұрын

    I immediately looked it up and damn we really are just like fruit flies lol

  • @mylaughinghog

    @mylaughinghog

    Жыл бұрын

    It was a hard nut to crack.

  • @_GLXC

    @_GLXC

    10 ай бұрын

    Flashes the light Fly: AMBATUKAM OMAYGOTT

  • @ishechad5960

    @ishechad5960

    9 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂 and they would drink less alcohol afterwards!!

  • @MarcColten73

    @MarcColten73

    8 ай бұрын

    Did they check to see if they smoked cigarettes?

  • @3756hans
    @3756hans Жыл бұрын

    I remember reading a white paper that detailed aggression in fruit flys in response to being swatted at. Where they'd harass the swatter. In my experience that strategy doesn't end well for them.

  • @cadensauerbrey9005
    @cadensauerbrey9005 Жыл бұрын

    In undergrad school, my genetics class did a study on carcinogenic genes in fruitflies and traced them back to the same gene in humans. It was super cool and helped us learn more about tumors and how to treat them.

  • @90sMillenial
    @90sMillenial Жыл бұрын

    "Activating the ejaculation neuron of a fruit fly..." is a totally new phrase that I learned.

  • @wumplepuff
    @wumplepuff Жыл бұрын

    One of my favourite things people have ever done with fruit flies is that one time they gave them a ton of oxygen and they got slightly bigger lmao

  • @semaj_5022

    @semaj_5022

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank goodness it was only *slightly*

  • @wumplepuff

    @wumplepuff

    Жыл бұрын

    @@semaj_5022 nah dude I want a parrot sized fruit fly to sit on my shoulder so I can be a fly pirate for a little while

  • @semaj_5022

    @semaj_5022

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wumplepuff Damn why that pirate lookin so fly

  • @peachymunmagenta

    @peachymunmagenta

    Жыл бұрын

    They’re not genetically able to get much bigger than slightly anymore I bet

  • @karezaalonso7110

    @karezaalonso7110

    7 ай бұрын

    Tropical areas are well known for bigger insects

  • @mrbismarck
    @mrbismarck Жыл бұрын

    I worked in IT for a year at a place that experimented on fruit flies. Someone there showed me how to look at a batch of fruit flies and pick out the virgins. I didn't ask him why he needed to know that.

  • @czcbearsrule1

    @czcbearsrule1

    Жыл бұрын

    This is a pretty normal technique for genetic breeding. In order to know the exact father of the brood you need to segregate the females as virgins.

  • @mrbismarck

    @mrbismarck

    Жыл бұрын

    @@czcbearsrule1 I thought he was just lonely. Your explanation makes much more sense.

  • @therealjammit

    @therealjammit

    Жыл бұрын

    How did you know? Was the fly doing the Naruto run everywhere? Was it wearing a Linux t-shirt? Little Fedora?

  • @czcbearsrule1

    @czcbearsrule1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@therealjammit the honest answer is that flies have their pupal poop for the first 6 hours of life during which they can’t have sex, so if you see the poop still in them they are virgins.

  • @DrachenGothik666

    @DrachenGothik666

    Жыл бұрын

    @@therealjammit Hey, don't sell Linux short. Not all who use it are virgins. Some people program in it. Like my wife.😉

  • @nyx4506
    @nyx4506 Жыл бұрын

    "Red light district." I absolutely snorted.

  • @jamesmccollom7246
    @jamesmccollom7246 Жыл бұрын

    Sleep isn't something we need, it's something so valuable that we don't want to miss it. Take it from someone that is in chronic pain. There's countless days of little to no sleep

  • @jamesmccollom7246

    @jamesmccollom7246

    Жыл бұрын

    @Heather Petersen I wonder sometimes. Because there's stories of monks that never sleep. Some famous people are also recorded as sleeping 2hrs or less a night. With my chronic pain, there's some days I run 3-4 days without sleeping. Usually only sleep 2-4hrs. I've got severe sleep apnea aswell, so I never really slept when I do. Some doctors have wondered how I functioned with low testosterone aswell. I'd laugh at them because I used to be a amateur athlete aswell as working full time, partying, school, and pavement/backyard sports.

  • @EmilyJelassi
    @EmilyJelassi Жыл бұрын

    It’s very weird knowing that we share that many genes with a fruit fly..

  • @DrMonty-ng5fo

    @DrMonty-ng5fo

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure we share 50% of our genes with a banana xD But really, the 60% figure isn't that weird. Humans and flies both share a common ancestor, and even though humans and flies are vastly different, we share a LOT in common. We both have organs like hearts, eyes, eat food, have dna, have limbs, etc.

  • @RaGiAn87

    @RaGiAn87

    Жыл бұрын

    Its not that weird. You probably thought we share "that many" genes with monkeys so fruitflies would be less, but thats not how it works. We are 98.8% close to monkeys. Once you understand that, being 60% close to fruitflys is not surprising at all. Humans are not unique animals.

  • @grum5776

    @grum5776

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RaGiAn87 not to mention evolution plays by the rules, many times arriving at similar if not identical solutions

  • @Philemaphobia

    @Philemaphobia

    9 ай бұрын

    Mew is made of the same code as Pikachu Creeper is from the same code as Steve. Synth is from the same Code as Ghoul.

  • @perkyraid9089

    @perkyraid9089

    9 ай бұрын

    @@RaGiAn87Also something to consider as well, we all “evolved” from a single tree of organisms. Hell even the viruses we have are the same. Like technically about 99% of dogs i believe share a common ancestor, and better yet that common aancestor isnt actually “dead” but is still alive and reproducing. Its a virus… A dog that lived thousands of years ago had a virus that replicated some living cells of the said dog and made them rogue. Those cells in a dormant state transfered to another dog via sex. The virus is then in the kids, the kids mate, have kids, they matec have kids etc etc etc. I forgot what its called but the virus was dormant for many generations but the original dog was still “alive” in the living dogs.

  • @MiniMii550
    @MiniMii55010 ай бұрын

    Could you imagine having a whole box full of those flies that can nut on command you're about to initiate an experiment with these guys and your new intern accidentally turns on the red light?

  • @lottieew135
    @lottieew135 Жыл бұрын

    I love how they, the scientists, called the Notch gene after notches in the wings! I've had a bit of a scary time, wondering if my Notch3 gene test came back as normal, because if it didn't, it was likely that I had Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Artereopathy with Subcortical Infarct Leucoencephalopathy (aka CADASIL), and my mum & deadbeat father would have to have a test to see who passed on the faulty gene. Thank god I'm not that broken, my immune system just likes to royally attack the myelin sheaths on my neurons. I have come to terms with the diagnosis I got of MS, and I am happy my husband-to-be is just as cool with helping me with every new symptom or relapse 🤷‍♀️💓

  • @jrmckim

    @jrmckim

    Жыл бұрын

    My comment disappeared

  • @mud1905
    @mud1905 Жыл бұрын

    This will be the first and last time I EVER thank a fruit fly……………… Thank you.

  • @nothanks9503

    @nothanks9503

    Жыл бұрын

    Excuse me LGBTQIA+ flys

  • @joshchotiner
    @joshchotiner Жыл бұрын

    "That's a hard but to crack" - come on, Hank! 😂😂😂

  • @gerrimilner9448
    @gerrimilner9448 Жыл бұрын

    loved experimenting on these little guys, loved this vid. at uni some students delibratly released there experimental ones, so that around the uni there were many variations, the staff confiscated our flys and euthenised them themselves by the time we were there so we couldent free them into the local population

  • @duyanhng8430

    @duyanhng8430

    10 ай бұрын

    yo that's biological warfare lmao

  • @J.A.huscher
    @J.A.huscher Жыл бұрын

    A few days ago I saw you in a video used in my psychology class. I didn't know you did other stuff other than what's on SciShow so that is cool. I think it was on the CrashCourse channel thing where you talked about the scientific method in psychology

  • @jamesmurray438

    @jamesmurray438

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep. Hank also presents on CC. That's how I initially discovered him. Thanks to Hank and CC, I passed various modules in college like anatomy and physiology and psychology

  • @kathyjohnson2043

    @kathyjohnson2043

    Жыл бұрын

    All of Crash Course is great but my favorite will always be World History, the original, with. ..wait for it, The Mongols.

  • @MuscarV2

    @MuscarV2

    Жыл бұрын

    You mean "I didn't know you did other stuff than SciShow"? (The scientific method is obvious science...) Hank does MANY other things, multiple youtube channels like both the other SciShow spinoff channels, other unrelated ones and stuff outside of KZread. Surprising anyone doesn't know that.

  • @J.A.huscher

    @J.A.huscher

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@MuscarV2 Yes I meant SciShow, I'm sorry. It's been a long day. And this is kind of the only KZread channel I actively watch. I knew there were spinoffs but I never really watched them. I know he's written books and stuff and doesn't major in just science, I just never really thought of the other KZread channels he's been in. I'm sorry for wording it weirdly. And the video we watched in psychology was about the scientific method.

  • @semaj_5022

    @semaj_5022

    Жыл бұрын

    @H.U.S.K. Project Hank presented Crash Course Psychology, Philosophy, and History of Science, as well as Chemistry and Biology. All of them are worth a watch, but the first 3 I listed especially. The scientific method video could have been any of those 3, too, honestly. I think he touches on it in all of them. You should absolutely try to check them out whenever you have the time. They're really educational, of course, but also very entertaining in that classic "Hank Green" sort of way.

  • @paulbennett7021
    @paulbennett7021 Жыл бұрын

    I wanted to see the bit about exploding ants.

  • @jbbrutal6714

    @jbbrutal6714

    Жыл бұрын

    Like ×10

  • @Natalia-09
    @Natalia-09 Жыл бұрын

    These guys are so fun! We used these guys to study some different things about genetics in my genetics lab last semester.

  • @bjdefilippo447
    @bjdefilippo447 Жыл бұрын

    I had a SURF (fellowship) in a biology lab at Caltech that was really fascinating, so I considered switching my major from ChemE to Bio. Then we got to the fruit fly genetics part of Bio lab, and I watched one of the flies I'd just dosed giving birth while dying. That was it for me, I'm afraid. That research is better done by folks made of sterner stuff than I.

  • @FeedEgg
    @FeedEgg Жыл бұрын

    I would love to see how a flea behaves in micro gravity!

  • @holeshothunter5544

    @holeshothunter5544

    Жыл бұрын

    Confused.

  • @theoneandonlyguyallikian1190
    @theoneandonlyguyallikian1190 Жыл бұрын

    "Crack the nut" 🤣 LMAO

  • @Symphing12
    @Symphing12 Жыл бұрын

    It's videos like this one that remind me why I love SciShow. DFTBA!!

  • @JesseBlackAllen
    @JesseBlackAllen7 ай бұрын

    I'm just getting back into SciShow videos again. They were (and are) awesome! I'm very thankful for your work here.

  • @PlutosAsleep
    @PlutosAsleep Жыл бұрын

    i love scishow, y’all are why i’m passing science, you make it fun! ❤

  • @snowgoon
    @snowgoon Жыл бұрын

    Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

  • @mandarinD
    @mandarinD Жыл бұрын

    The drosophila melanogaster. I had the latin name drilled into my memory over 10 years ago. Thanks Ms Dunn!

  • @silentracer911
    @silentracer911 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder if the gravity effecting the fly’s immune for fungus has anything to do with how hyphae grow?

  • @AriJeru
    @AriJeru Жыл бұрын

    Dude! My favorite are all the completely insane body patterning experiments.

  • @637dan
    @637dan Жыл бұрын

    Controversial take: the space fly research also need to make a giant flightless variant. So I can raise my little space puppy from a maggot when I get to space.

  • @Nullsparta2
    @Nullsparta2 Жыл бұрын

    *and it's not just out of spite* So spite is definitely *one* of the reasons though

  • @Jaredeva01
    @Jaredeva01 Жыл бұрын

    Do the flies that go to space have to pass the same astronaut training program and evaluation in order to make the flight off planet?

  • @StardogTheRed
    @StardogTheRed Жыл бұрын

    "Not *just* out of spite" - suggesting that it is done out of spite, as well as for other reasons

  • @kayleighlehrman9566
    @kayleighlehrman9566 Жыл бұрын

    The cadence with which Hank exclaimed "Space! People would spend a lot of money to go to space!" just really reminded me of John Mulaney

  • @jimparsons6803
    @jimparsons6803 Жыл бұрын

    And they don't jump in the middle of a newspaper that you're reading because they want to be petted. And they don't walk around on your keyboard, purring, and destroying fifteen pages of copy that you failed to back up. But pets are cute and cuddly, in spite of their angora hair that gets into everything. Unlike fruit flies, that don't have the SPCA or other organizations that might put you in jail for doing to those flies, if you were doing the same to horses, cows, or pooches.

  • @tolic14ever
    @tolic14ever Жыл бұрын

    Just started...recently heard about some of these living more than several years hope to hear..😬

  • @MattsInTheBelfry
    @MattsInTheBelfry Жыл бұрын

    Catch them with fruit or wine in a glass, cover with plastic wrap poked with tiny holes

  • @3756hans
    @3756hans Жыл бұрын

    I put one on the nosecone of a fan and turned it on high . It flew around in circles for a minute before it could fly straight again .

  • @MadCat-75
    @MadCat-75 Жыл бұрын

    Hi, shown were two different families of flies, that's the problem with trival names... the last video shows Tephritidae, the others were about Drosophilidae.

  • @johnnyregs2378
    @johnnyregs2378 Жыл бұрын

    My brothers a research biophysicist and he used fruit flies to study prostate cancer which directly led to new treatments.

  • @jigilub
    @jigilub Жыл бұрын

    I have one phrase running through my head as I watch this, "Fly TMI!"

  • @exiledtobronze8694
    @exiledtobronze8694 Жыл бұрын

    i just imagine someone shining a red light at people and egmmmhhh...ahhh

  • @ChrisWard64658
    @ChrisWard646586 ай бұрын

    Interesting thanks for sharing

  • @skybluskyblueify
    @skybluskyblueify Жыл бұрын

    Remember when a politician seemed to be outraged at how much science that the government funds is on fruit flies? Today that's actually cute compared to some outrages produced by politicians and associated people.

  • @geoffreymartin6363
    @geoffreymartin6363 Жыл бұрын

    This episode is... pretty fly

  • @mike1983mn

    @mike1983mn

    Жыл бұрын

    … for a white eye(d fruit fly).

  • @injunsun
    @injunsun9 ай бұрын

    @SciShow @ about 13:30, I have a hypothesis: On Earth, the fruitflies exposed to higher winds or who need to fly more experience more centripetal forces in their lives, and may also be more likely exposed to airborne fungal spores. Those living in areas with little or no winds, and who didn't need to fly as much, exposed to less centripetal forces, also happened to be less exposed to fungal spores. It's possible this is a natural thing, and spaceflight is simply exposing it. That would be cool, and if it ends up being real, I called it.

  • @ac9206
    @ac9206 Жыл бұрын

    Sci show, the compilation king, the repost monarch, the reteller of stories already told!!

  • @DrachenGothik666

    @DrachenGothik666

    Жыл бұрын

    Not everyone obsessively follows every Sci-Show post. Compilations are great for those who may have missed older episodes, or who might be new subscribers. You can't always see 'em all. Themed episodes are also neat and having a single topic all in one place is cool.

  • @ac9206

    @ac9206

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DrachenGothik666 playlist were designed for exactly this purpose

  • @AlixL96
    @AlixL9622 күн бұрын

    That thing about anesthesia bursting the lipid rafts makes me kinda worried about whether anesthesia has any long term affects we don't know about.

  • @nicksamek12
    @nicksamek12 Жыл бұрын

    @21:53 when he added in flies I was like oh yeah sure, then when he added that it's in mice as well? That's pretty promising

  • @archionblu
    @archionblu Жыл бұрын

    The exasperation in that ending was *chefs kiss*

  • @ripwig6682
    @ripwig6682 Жыл бұрын

    Great video.

  • @djentlemandjones0
    @djentlemandjones017 күн бұрын

    "How are we going to stop these cancer-causing x-rays?" -"I got it; we'll use a cancer-causing heavy metal apron!"

  • @Bloodshotistic
    @Bloodshotistic Жыл бұрын

    I cannot believe for one instance our top leading, apparently thirsty, research scientists, tried to start fruit fly hands free orgies for a solid reason why.

  • @nunyobidness9055
    @nunyobidness905511 ай бұрын

    Nothing gets me going like a nice grapefruit 😂

  • @rostkowianka
    @rostkowianka Жыл бұрын

    there's a fruit fly on the monitor as i watch this

  • @HeliotropeElephant
    @HeliotropeElephant Жыл бұрын

    Had to check the calendar to see if the red light / fruit fly experiment video was posted in April

  • @justinweatherford8129
    @justinweatherford8129 Жыл бұрын

    Cells not only know how to multiply, they know how to divide too. Wait, cells divide in order to multiply.

  • @marcus_cole_2
    @marcus_cole_2 Жыл бұрын

    7 minutes in and I said to myself red light district for flies 7 minutes 30 seconds later rad this district for fly shows up...lmaf

  • @Essman614
    @Essman614 Жыл бұрын

    Time Flies like an arrow, Fruit Flies like a banana -Zilean

  • @Ratciclefan
    @Ratciclefan Жыл бұрын

    Fruit flies: [exist] Scientists: and I took that personally

  • @Amocles
    @Amocles Жыл бұрын

    Maybe if I dress up as a fruit fly I can participate in that experiment?

  • @_andrewvia
    @_andrewvia Жыл бұрын

    Ok, I don't know where else to submit an idea, so I'll put it here, hoping that one of you will see it. "Are pupae aware while they are changing from caterpillar to butterfly? Can they respond to stimuli as they are able before or after the pupa stage? Might they get bored? Et cetera?"

  • @Wootzel

    @Wootzel

    Жыл бұрын

    Having handled pupae of moths and beetles, I can answer part of that: they DO respond to stimuli. Lots of pupating insects can wiggle when handled, which I suppose is a defense that makes them slightly harder to keep a grip on. I couldn't tell you anything about what's going on in their brains, though I have heard about studies showing that some moths basically liquefy themselves during metamorphosis, yet retain memories in adulthood. Bugs are weird!

  • @bet3240

    @bet3240

    Жыл бұрын

    ​ look no further than jumping beans. Their entire thing is being extremelly awake the entire time

  • @alleny2971
    @alleny2971 Жыл бұрын

    i just kept imagining the male fruit flies looking at dirtly fruit fly magazines

  • @xenon.421
    @xenon.421 Жыл бұрын

    So really what they did was just give a fruit fly a red room

  • @Swanke
    @Swanke2 ай бұрын

    So, what you're saying is, I need some red lights around my house. Not for the flies. Got it.

  • @peterprime2140
    @peterprime2140 Жыл бұрын

    Fruit flies? More like fruitful findings.

  • @Marcha-

    @Marcha-

    Жыл бұрын

    The pfp tho😂

  • @Erith_Idokkel_TheMaceDwarf

    @Erith_Idokkel_TheMaceDwarf

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Marcha-right? 😂

  • @Erith_Idokkel_TheMaceDwarf

    @Erith_Idokkel_TheMaceDwarf

    Жыл бұрын

    Not even memeing but do you have a sauce for that pfp?

  • @thomasrogers8239

    @thomasrogers8239

    Жыл бұрын

    Ayoooo

  • @Zaliant

    @Zaliant

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Marcha- bro got a red light shined on him

  • @Nazuiko
    @Nazuiko Жыл бұрын

    Sestrin treatments sound useful in space, preventing some of the atrophy and decayof muscles in microgravity

  • @LockandLoad79
    @LockandLoad79 Жыл бұрын

    Any one other than me when hearing no-exercise-needed-buff protein thinking "oh hey, hello Super Soldier Serum" ? Also, combine that with that "fear trigger" research.

  • @MrDDiRusso
    @MrDDiRusso Жыл бұрын

    TIME FLIES LIKE AN ARROW. FRUIT FLIES LIKE A BANANA!

  • @matthewcalifana488
    @matthewcalifana488 Жыл бұрын

    A wasp must of had some fear when it came thru a window & I smacked it with 1000 volts , it shook it,s head and kept trying to go back outside .

  • @ABetterWeapon
    @ABetterWeapon Жыл бұрын

    Hmmm, going with a jacket now? A bold move.

  • @christinefedruk5161
    @christinefedruk5161 Жыл бұрын

    Love my induction stove.

  • @vaszgul736
    @vaszgul736 Жыл бұрын

    "We also have traits controlled by our genes on our sex chromosomes. One example is red-green color blindness which is passed down on the X chromosome. That's why people who are XY and only have one copy of this chromosome are more likely to be colorblind; usually men. People with two X chromosomes would need to have the gene for color blindness on both [chromosomes], which is less likely." Holy schnitzel I just wanna say I love how fluid and flawless the execution of this sentence is. Informative, accurate and ever so perfectly inclusive.

  • @vaszgul736

    @vaszgul736

    Жыл бұрын

    Usually in videos like these, (not by scishow, but you know the ones) the narrator will just slap together a quick quotable quip like "only men can be colorblind" which is just wildly inaccurate, doesn't take into account the strange way chromosomes can be/break/or rearrange themselves not only in cis and intersex people but also in trans people as well. Or the fact that yes, cis women with two XX chromosomes can be colorblind and even completely colorblind, it just requires two copies of the same gene which is rarer, but not impossible. And yknow, not all men are colorblind, but some people have taken and run with the idea after hearing sentences like that. So while it's so much easier to say "only men can be colorblind," easier said doesn't mean correct, informative, or inclusive of statistical outliers.

  • @karezaalonso7110
    @karezaalonso71107 ай бұрын

    For regular folks who need to get rid of them you can put small container with couple drops of liquid soap and also few drops of apple cider vinegar and the rest with warm water, mix and leave it in the infested area. It will kill lots of them.

  • @meatgod6808
    @meatgod6808 Жыл бұрын

    dam never ben this early. I even beat the flies!

  • @frankied.roosevelt6232
    @frankied.roosevelt6232 Жыл бұрын

    Drosphila-lalalalalala- you likely will outlive the roaches and the ripen fruit will be no compare... DROSPHILA! (sung to the Mail time songs from blue clues)

  • @christianheichel
    @christianheichel Жыл бұрын

    Tinker with my genes I need some of that sestrine

  • @MrFleem
    @MrFleem Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, flies. Thlies.

  • @chefdean7257
    @chefdean7257 Жыл бұрын

    "And all the labbies say, my research is pretty hot for a fly guy." 🤓

  • @Fabala827
    @Fabala827 Жыл бұрын

    Sci show re: wasps: “You’d think “parents would want to protect their offspring from viruses” Me, having spaced out for a second: “Oh damn, are we talking about vaccines now? What’d I miss?!”

  • @jrmckim
    @jrmckim Жыл бұрын

    I'd like to know more about the exploding ants please

  • @jacobopstad5483
    @jacobopstad5483 Жыл бұрын

    Space is limited in space... o.O LOL

  • @digichalk
    @digichalk Жыл бұрын

    Rooooxxxannneeeee, you don't have to turn on the red light! Rooooooxxxannnne!

  • @williehasenbos4899
    @williehasenbos48998 ай бұрын

    I know where you'r intro is from ...... and its oooooold .....

  • @meadowsz5390
    @meadowsz5390 Жыл бұрын

    🎉 the real MVPs

  • @iratami
    @iratami Жыл бұрын

    I'm still surprised that we havent started building a space ring to implement artificial gravity. We have the technology

  • @clown134

    @clown134

    Жыл бұрын

    mainly because it's very expensive with very little reward

  • @iratami

    @iratami

    Жыл бұрын

    @@clown134 having astronauts come back with less physical degradation is a very minor benefit

  • @FloozieOne
    @FloozieOne11 ай бұрын

    When I looked at those jars of fruit flies I had a vision of someone dropping one and letting a zillion fruit flies loose in the space station. Does microgravity make it easier to swat things or harder? In any case it would be a disaster.

  • @kwingle
    @kwingle8 ай бұрын

    fruit flies suck I say keep testing on them!

  • @Other_People
    @Other_People Жыл бұрын

    I could use some of that sestrin.

  • @williamfrazier4797
    @williamfrazier4797 Жыл бұрын

    Ironic how space can be so limited in space.

  • @MarcColten73
    @MarcColten738 ай бұрын

    Somewhere, in a higher dimension, "Why,you may ask, do we torment these fragile humans and what hsve we learned from them?"

  • @eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812
    @eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812 Жыл бұрын

    Wow!

  • @karezaalonso7110
    @karezaalonso71107 ай бұрын

    9:40 So Space is limited in...Space🌌

  • @gibranhenriquedesouza2843
    @gibranhenriquedesouza2843 Жыл бұрын

    I understood "flys can teach us how Anastacia works."

  • @thomasross4921
    @thomasross4921 Жыл бұрын

    Sestrins sound like something we might want to give to astronauts.

  • @monk607
    @monk6074 ай бұрын

    I really wish y'all would list the title of the video in each compalation

  • @ogcurly6256
    @ogcurly6256 Жыл бұрын

    👨‍🔬:🔦🔴 🪰:🥴💦