Publications by authors named "Devon J Riggs"
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- Citizen science allows non-scientists to contribute to research, particularly in addressing issues relevant to their communities, typically designed by experienced scientists.
- Challenges arise when citizens try to design their own research due to limited training and access to necessary tools, which can lead to overlooked community experiences in health research.
- This approach engages participants from Grade 5 to adults in studying diet and disease using the genetics of Drosophila, empowering them to lead research projects and incorporate community relevance into the findings.
In many tissues, the presence of stem cells is inferred by the capacity of the tissue to maintain homeostasis and undergo repair after injury. Isolation of self-renewing cells with the ability to generate the full array of cells within a given tissue strongly supports this idea, but the identification and genetic manipulation of individual stem cells within their niche remain a challenge. Here we present novel methods for marking and genetically altering epithelial follicle stem cells (FSCs) within the Drosophila ovary.
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