Articles from March 2012

The case of the epileptic flies

Sunday, March 18, 2012
Written by
John Riehl
Since the 1930s, scientists have studied the prickle gene, noting that flies carrying mutated prickle genes exhibit physical malformations such as body bristles pointed in abnormal directions.

Squeezing secrets from sea sponges

Thursday, March 15, 2012
Written by
John Riehl
Lei Chen stays awake some nights looking for solutions to a complex problem.As a postdoctoral scholar in the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, Chen is helping synthesize the anticancer natural products superstolides A and B, substances found in marine sponges in the waters off the island New...
Kelsie Reeve

Healthier pigs, less $

Monday, March 12, 2012
Kelsie Reeve investigates how to create a ventilation system inside swine farrowing barns.
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