About a year ago, a medical paper came out that received surprisingly little attention in the media, despite its potentially profound ramifications for sufferers of chemotherapy (Raffaghello L, Lee C, Safdie FM, Wei M, Madia F, Bianchi G, Longo VD., 2008. Starvation-dependent differential stress resistance protects normal but not cancer cells against high-dose chemotherapy. [...]
The number of “surprising”reports on the uselessness of vitamin supplements seem to have been increasing as of late.
A recent huge study (Neuhouser et al., 2009) is just the latest to find that earlier studies claiming health benefits for supplements may have been jumping the gun. It’s actually astounding that in a [...]
Summertime in Montana won’t actually be here for a couple of months yet, but with the last few days in the 50s, we can at least imagine it. For an entomologist, summertime means bugs on the go again, after their six months of winter diapause at various developmental stages.
So, the Gershwin classic “Summertime” from [...]
Leptopilina is a genus of parasitic wasps present mainly in Europe, that attack various fruit fly species in the genus Drosophila. Females lay an egg in a fly larva, and the wasp larva develops inside while the fly larva continues to grow, and to begin to pupate. During the pupal stage, the [...]
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