The activity of one type of immune cell helps regrow the limbs of amputated salamanders.
The activity of one type of immune cell helps regrow the limbs of amputated salamanders.
Researchers track DNA modifications and gene expression in stem cells as they differentiate.
Inflammation in the hypothalamus may induce degeneration in tissues throughout the body.
Research Associate, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Age: 27
Satellites of the Golgi apparatus generate the microtubules used to grow outer dendrite branches in Drosophila neurons.
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.
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
An Oregon teenager spent a summer in a New York biochemistry lab helping to discover a novel molecule that could become the next commercial nonaddictive painkiller.