Snails know more about sex and science than we do

Snails know more about sex and science than we do

Many scientists model biological processes with the study of mice, rats, and even flies, but snails have been especially useful to Dr. Maurine Neiman. She has been a professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies and biology at the University of Iowa since 2008. Neiman’s lab is dedicated to bridging biology and gender studies. More importantly, it seeks to answer questions, using snails, about something universal yet still elusive to humans…