January 23rd, 2009 at 4:58PM
Worst Jobs in Science - Leech Researcher For Mark Siddall and his colleagues from the leech lab at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the primary tool for field research is a revealing pair of shorts. “Fieldwork involves wading through swamps, allowing leeches to crawl onto us,” explains Siddall, the museum’s curator of invertebrates, whose subjects are increasingly being used in reconstructive surgery and in the development of anticoagulants. — PopSci.com

Worst Jobs in Science - Leech Researcher

For Mark Siddall and his colleagues from the leech lab at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the primary tool for field research is a revealing pair of shorts. “Fieldwork involves wading through swamps, allowing leeches to crawl onto us,” explains Siddall, the museum’s curator of invertebrates, whose subjects are increasingly being used in reconstructive surgery and in the development of anticoagulants. — PopSci.com

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