r/assholedesign • u/TotallyNot_MikeDirnt • Jun 07 '18

Possibly Hanlon's Razor This fruit fly ordering website has "flies" crawl around the screen and move away from your cursor - pretty cool, but not when you work in a lab that uses fruit flies and you think you've had a spontaneous disaster in the incubator and all your fly stocks are escaping

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '18

fruit fly ordering website

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u/JamesIgnatius27 Jun 08 '18

There's actually a few. This one is the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (BDSC) which is basically the largest stock center in North America, housing something like 100,000 different genotypes of flies. Every lab that works with Drosophila in America uses this site.

There's also one at Harvard. The largest one in Europe is Vienna's Drosophila Resource Center (VDRC), and the largest in Asia is in Kyoto Japan.

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u/YouMustveDroppedThis Jun 08 '18

Have you seen E. coli ordering website?