Drosophila insulin-like peptides (dILPs) regulate part of the signaling pathway that helps keep organs growing in proportion during development.
Drosophila insulin-like peptides (dILPs) regulate part of the signaling pathway that helps keep organs growing in proportion during development.
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
Scientist? Filmmaker? Alexis Gambis welcomes both labels.
Histones stored on lipid droplets in fly embryos provide a backup supply when newly synthesized ones are lacking.
Fruit flies engineered to suffer from temperature-dependent seizures reveal overactive sodium channels in neurons.
Advances in light microscopy allow the mapping of cell migration during embryogenesis and capture dynamic processes at the cellular level.
Scientists unravel the confusing molecular biology behind a fruit fly’s reliance on a single type of cactus.
In exploring how embryos take shape, John Wallingford has identified a key pathway involved in vertebrate development—and human disease.