Data Nuggets Featured scientist Biz Turnell from Technische Universität Dresden Sea squirts left have the alternative oxidase AOX gene that lets their mitochondria make fewer reactive oxygen species ROS ID: 933331
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Stop that oxidation! What fruit flies can teach us about human health
Data NuggetsFeatured scientist: Biz Turnell from Technische Universität Dresden
Slide2Sea squirts (left) have the alternative oxidase (AOX) gene that lets their mitochondria make fewer reactive oxygen species (ROS).
Fruit flies (below) do not naturally have the gene.
Slide3Laboratory fruit flies in their “natural habitat”: a plastic vial
Slide4Biz’s colleague Cornelia
Wetzker
, hard at work in the fly lab
Slide5Biz with one of their favorite scientists in training