School students as Drosophila experimenters

PLoS Biol. 2005 Jul;3(7):e246. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030246. Epub 2005 Jul 12.

Abstract

Inspired by an undergraduate science project in Drosophila genetics published in PLoS Biology, high school students investigate a model of Alzheimer's Disease.

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Axonal Transport / drug effects
  • Curcumin / pharmacology
  • Drosophila melanogaster / genetics*
  • Genome
  • Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Larva / drug effects
  • Larva / genetics
  • Molecular Biology / education*
  • Neuromuscular Junction / drug effects
  • Paclitaxel / pharmacology
  • Phenotype
  • Pilot Projects
  • Students
  • tau Proteins / drug effects
  • tau Proteins / genetics

Substances

  • tau Proteins
  • Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3
  • Curcumin
  • Paclitaxel