Foregoing Food

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2017 issue of The Scientist.

Diets: From art to science

March for Science, Trumping the EPA, the French election, and more

Locals helped researchers find the extremely rare boa.

Parallel evolution in jaws and teeth helped early mammals diversify their diets.

Researchers are beginning to uncover a link between activity level and the microbial makeup of one’s gut.

Newborns deprived of oxygen have their temperatures lowered to protect against brain damage, but it’s hard to decipher the babies’ immediate response to the intervention.

Our totally bogus case report swiftly passed muster, with only minor revisions requested.

These engineered “cells” were made from the secretions and membranes of human mesenchymal stem cells.

Regularly taking breaks from eating—for hours or days—can trigger changes both expected, such as in metabolic dynamics and inflammation, and surprising, as in immune system function and cancer progression.

Fruit flies and mice grow better and eat less when the amino acid balance of their food reflects that coded by their exomes.

In mice, cells in the prefrontal cortex—where memories are maintained long-term—start to encode a fearful experience right from the start.

Scientists have estimated that about half of murine platelet production occurs in the lungs.

At the interface of food, nutrition, and agriculture, Lindsay Allen’s research has been informing nutrition guidelines and policies around the world for decades.

The UC Davis agroecologist grew up on a farm and now works to help farmers grow more resilient crops.

Identifying immune cell subsets with CyTOF

The Scandinavian island’s unique combination of genetic homogeneity, genealogical tradition, and high participation in research make it a prime location for discovery and validation of drug targets.

The human brain’s insular cortex is adept at registering distaste for everything from rotten fruit to unfamiliar cultures.

In the 1960s, immunologists took matters into their own hands—and under their own skin—to characterize an immunoglobulin involved in allergies.