Researchers identify the signaling program that enables finger and toenail stem cells to direct digit regeneration after amputation.
Researchers identify the signaling program that enables finger and toenail stem cells to direct digit regeneration after amputation.
In avian species, a gene induces programmed cell death during development in the area where a phallus would otherwise grow.
Regular supplies of food for scavenger birds in Spain may not be the most effective conservation strategy, as smaller birds are bullied away.
| June 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the June 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Highways and byways are among the man-made environmental alterations driving the evolution of animals on contemporary timescales, with implications for ecology.
Raising one evolutionary question after another, Brandon Gaut has harvested a crop of novel findings about how plant genomes evolve.
In the fruit fly, the ability of neural stem cells to make the full repertoire of neurons is regulated by the movement of key genes to the nuclear periphery.
Scientists working in developing nations who engage in capacity building find it bolsters the lives of locals and their own work.
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia. Age: 34
Yale University evolutionary biologist Steven Brady studies the evolutionary impacts of roads on the amphibians.