Biology in the News Explained

Starvation never felt so good

New research suggests that the damaging symptoms of chemotherapy can be much reduced by fasting before and after treatment.

Vitamins are not food

Evidence accumulates that vitamin supplements aren't improving anyone's health. This probably has something to do with the fact that humans evolved to eat food, not pills.

Seasonal Tunes

It's almost Summertime.

Cool bugs #10 – Fruit fly parasites

Leptopilina is a genus of parasitic wasps which eat fruit fly larvae from the inside out.