Viral infections of the central nervous system may trigger cytokines that induce seizures.
Viral infections of the central nervous system may trigger cytokines that induce seizures.
Researchers are using modern experimental tools to probe the mysterious molecular pathways that lead to premature labor and birth.
Satellites of the Golgi apparatus generate the microtubules used to grow outer dendrite branches in Drosophila neurons.
Scientists develop a gel that mimics mollusc glue to coat the insides of blood vessels.
Microarrays help keep induced pluripotent stem cell lines in check, from start to finish.
Flies turning blue help researchers link the deterioration of the intestinal barrier to age-related death.
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.
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.