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.
Three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are offering $3 million to scientists demonstrating excellence in biology and medical research.
New research adds to an emerging picture of the changes that global warming and thinning ice are wreaking on the marine ecosystems at the top of the world.
Scenes from a research trip, where researchers peered beneath the ice to shine a light on the emerging picture of a changing Arctic Ocean
In a pond, more amphibian species mean decreased chances of disease spread.
Under new plans to reduce the European Union’s overall spending, science funding did relatively well, but research leaders want more—and they may well get it.
Scientists have identified the sticky substance that is damaging the feathers of hundreds seabirds washed ashore in England as an additive for lubricant oils.
New amphibian species are being discovered at an exciting rate, yet they are also the vertebrates most at risk of extinction.