A new study shows that grooming by ants promotes colony-wide resistance to fungal infections by transferring small amounts of pathogen to nestmates.
A new study shows that grooming by ants promotes colony-wide resistance to fungal infections by transferring small amounts of pathogen to nestmates.
During development, the cells of an embryo change their pattern of gene expression, which allows them to detach from their original location and migrate to another part of the embryo, where the pattern changes again to allow formation of a new organ.
A flood of new discoveries has refined our definition of cancer stem cells. Now it’s up to human clinical trials to test if they can make a difference in patients.
March 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2012 issue of The Scientist.
With an eye to understanding animal regeneration, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado has turned a freshwater planarian into a model system to watch.
For the first time researchers have demonstrated the molecular tango that gives rise to repeating patterns in developing animal embryos.
Infection by GFP-encoding viruses enables quick, easy detection of tuberculosis in patient samples.
Imaging cell cytoskeletons during early embryonic development leads researchers to uncover a new regulator of cell shape