Flies turning blue help researchers link the deterioration of the intestinal barrier to age-related death.
Flies turning blue help researchers link the deterioration of the intestinal barrier to age-related death.
Archaeology can shine needed light on the evolution of our aggressive tendencies.
Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced.
A red alga appears to have adapted to extremely hot, acidic environments by collecting genes from bacteria and archaea.
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.
Physicists and biologists are working together to understand cooperation at all levels of life, from the cohesion of molecules to interspecies interactions.