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.
Microbes affect weight loss; dozens of cancer-linked genes identified; a climate change scientists speaks out about personal attacks; isolation among elderly linked to death
Attacks on my work aimed at undermining climate change science have turned me into a public figure. I have come to embrace that role.
Rising temperatures allow one mountain ant to climb higher, displacing a related species and possibly upsetting plant ecology.
Drosophila insulin-like peptides (dILPs) regulate part of the signaling pathway that helps keep organs growing in proportion during development.
The method to the dengue virus's maddening infectiousness.
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The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.