How Thousands Of Nature's Longest Sperm Squeeze Into A Tiny Fruit Fly

Inside the Intricacies of Fruit Fly Reproduction

Jasmin Imran Alsous had her sights set on what she presumed would resemble a chaotic jumble of cells beneath her microscope. Instead, she was examining the sperm storage organ of a male fruit fly, utilizing advanced imaging technology at the CCBScope Observatory, part of the Center for Computational Biology (CCB) located within the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute in New York City.