Breaking Report: Public Engagement in Fly Research

On my desk to read today? A bit of a departure from RNAi. This paper on engaging the public in Drosophila research caught my eye.

Pulver et al. (2011) Why flies? Inexpensive public engagement exercises to explain the value of basic biomedical research on Drosophila melanogaster. Adv Physiol Educ. 35(4):384-92. PubMed ID: 22139775.