Tag Archive | drosophila
LabBook June 22, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS […]
Linkage 2/11: The Matriarch, New Madrid, Blue Penguins
It never gets old hearing the story of how Janet Rowley found the first genetic cause for cancer in the early 1970′s, so it’s a delight to read this week’s New York Times conversation between Rowley and reporter Claudia Dreifus. The interview retraces Rowley’s steps from working with mentally disabled children at Cook County Hospital […]
The Kids Are Alright: New Genes Can Be Essential
When it comes to genes, evolutionary biologists have traditionally favored seniority. Genes thought to be most essential to life must be ancient and conserved, the assumption goes, handed down from species to species as the basic instructions of life. That sharing is evident in early developmental stages, which 19th-century biologist Ernst Haeckel observed to be […]
The Snowball of Speciation
Among evolution’s best tricks is the act of turning one species into two. Speciation, the foundation of a new species from an accumulation of small changes in an old one, has given birth to the incredible diversity of life on our planet. But in order for a new species to be founded, a sort of […]
Linkage 12/4: Emotional Flies, Musical Language and eBay Speciation
Fruit Flies and Musical Language Some interesting research on Futurity this week, covering a couple of my favorite scientific topics: fruit flies and music. The first, out of Caltech, used the humble little Drosophila melanogaster (only about 2.5mm in size) to study a very complex human behavior mystery: ADHD. While it might seem impossible to […]
