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HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Jennifer Michalowski	Mimicking a Fruit Fly's Natural Environment Yields Genetics Discovery The tiniest hairs on fruit fly larvae have complex genetic controls that David Stern almost missed -- until he took the fruit flies out of their cozy incubators.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Sarah C.P. Williams	Hungry for Pleasure, Hungry for Food Our drive to eat can be based on physical hunger or desire. The two aren't as separate as once thought.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Mitch Leslie	Creating Internal Maps Combining complementary skills, a team of neuroscientists studies how flies navigate their surroundings.
Science News June 11, 2005 Christen Brownlee	Calories May Not Count in Life Extension A team of researchers has shown in fruit flies that shifting a diet's relative amounts of nutrients, such as carbohydrates, protein, and fat, while only modestly cutting calories, extends life span just as much as a drastic calorie cut does.
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 Paul Muhlrad	Changing Channels Appetite and other deep-seated desires could be modified by altering brain ion channels, according to research at Janelia Farm.
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	The Very Hungry Mouse Activating one set of neurons makes a mouse eat, and eat, and eat.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Brian Vastag	Hope Floats With a new arsenal of robust models of ALS, drug development may move to the fast track.
Chemistry World August 10, 2012 Elinor Hughes	Long life rice Zhen-Yu Chen and colleagues from The Chinese University of Hong Kong fed antioxidants in black rice extract to fruit flies and observed that the flies lived longer than they normally would. Their mean lifespan increased from 44 days to 50 days.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Virginia Hughes	Glimpsing Inside a Moving Fruit Fly's Brain Vivek Jayaraman wants to capture, in real time, how the fly's brain responds to a changing environment. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover very basic patterns -- "algorithms" -- of fly brain activity that hold true in more complex brains including, presumably, ours.
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Nicole Kresge	Itching to Be Discovered When the receptor for capsaicin -- the chemical that gives heat to chili peppers -- is added to itch-sensing neurons, exposure to the normally painful capsaicin causes itchiness.
Scientific American July 3, 2006 Jeneen Interlandi	An Immune Portal Protein may be a key to autoimmune disorders
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 R. John Davenport	Wired for Smell Circuits of excitation and inhibition help the brain interpret odors.
Reason Aug/Sep 2000 Ronald Bailey	Strands of Life Book Review: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 Tekla S. Perry	Dream Jobs 2011: Insect Imagineer Gus Lott designs virtual reality systems for bugs and rats so that we can study their brains -- and ours
Chemistry World February 24, 2011 Carl Saxton	Mapping brain networks US scientists have created a model of the ring-shaped networks of neurons in the brain, which could help researchers to understand small changes within diseased brain cells.
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 John Brokars	Fly Fishing on the Brain Applying modern transgenic and video technology to that fabled animal model, the fruit fly, EnVivo Pharmaceuticals is creating a buzz in its program against neurodegenerative diseases.
Salon.com June 27, 2000 Tabitha M. Powledge	Book of life? Hosanna! The Human Genome Project has been completed. We will now cure diseases, weed out defective genes and create a new supergeneration in the near future. Not.
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Prepared Foods October 2007 Paula Frank	Article: Advancing Sweeteners: The Mystery of Sweet Taste Food scientists continue their search for the "Holy Grail" of ingredients that both function and taste exactly like sugar.
Chemistry World August 12, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Knock-out theory puts new spin on general anesthesia Consciousness may be extinguished through mysterious quantum biological effects that cause subtle changes in the electronic state of proteins, say researchers.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	Releasing the Brakes on Cell Fate Converting one cell type directly into another is a kind of modern-day alchemy, an ultimate goal in biological research. But unlike turning base metals into gold, changing a cell's identity is feasible, new research shows.
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Corinna Wu	Mouse Cam Tracking techniques offer a long-term view into the mouse brain.
Chemistry World July 11, 2007 Victoria Gill	How to Make Worms Turn Researchers in the US have discovered an intriguing and fun dimension to the nervous system of nematode worms, enabling them to steer the tiny organisms 'like remote-controlled cars.'
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Susan Hassler	Winged Victory: Fly-Size Wing Flapper Lifts Off The hope is to build robotic flies that could work in any situation in which it would be better or safer to send them instead of humans.
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Jennifer Michalowski	JAABA: Automating the Human Observer Software can be trained to recognize behaviors in several animals, including adult fruit flies, fruit fly larvae, and mice -- even by a user with no background in computer science.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Richard Saltus	Nerve Tonic A mouse with a random mutation changed forever the way scientists think about how injured nerves die -- and how, conceivably, their death might be delayed or prevented.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011	Let's Get Small Tim Harris develops tools neuroscientists can use to measure the brain's activity, to give them a quantitative view inside the elaborate structure of the brain.
Chemistry World June 2, 2006 Jon Evans	Axons Get Directions Scientists are a step closer to understanding the processes that control the growth and spread of nerve cells, following the discovery of a protein complex that directs the transport of building material to growing axons.
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Rabiya Tuma	Sister Act As a systems neuroscientist, Yang Dan integrates functional studies in animals with computer programs, computational tools, and statistics.
Bio-IT World March 8, 2005 Kevin Davies	Evolution of New Genes Studied EMBL researchers use comparative genomic analysis to identify new primate-specific gene family.
Smithsonian June 2006 Amy Crawford	Interview: Christiane Nusslein-Volhard A Nobel laureate holds forth on flies, genes and women in science. Her first book, Coming to Life, explains the genetic and cellular basis of animal development and explores the ethical implications of recent progress in genomics and biotechnology.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005	Too Great Expectations According to the SIA's annual investor survey, the median annual portfolio return expected in 2005 is 14.1%. This, of course, flies in the face of reality.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Nicole Kresge	Locating a Genetic Glitch A team of 41 scientists led by HHMI investigator Louis Ptacek has pinpointed the gene responsible for a rare disease that causes sudden, uncontrollable movements. The culprit is a little known protein that may be responsible for communication between neurons.
Bio-IT World March 10, 2003 Salvatore Salamone	Common Knowledge Two heads (or more) are better than one, except when they don't share information. That's where knowledge management comes in.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Ivan Amato	The View from Here "Every major advance in imaging technology precipitates a new round of breakthroughs in cell biology," says structural biologist Grant Jensen, an HHMI investigator at the California Institute of Technology.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 R. John Davenport	Hanchuan Peng: SmartScopes Even when he launched his career as an engineer and computer scientist, Hanchuan Peng was drawn to the beauty of biology. He is a leader in developing sophisticated ways to make sense of biological images.
IEEE Spectrum November 2005	Fly Guys Turning to nature for scientific and technological inspiration is not new, and you could argue that most human-made designs are derived from natural phenomena.
Chemistry World March 2, 2009 James Urquhart	Shining a light on neural activity US researchers have developed a new way to activate brain neurons that could lead to less invasive methods of restoring function in damaged nerves and brain tissue.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Maternal and Paternal Genes Don't Always Have The Same Effect On Offspring The genes you inherited from your mom and those passed along from your dad don't have equal footing when it comes to how they influence your biology.
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Nicole Kresge	Use It or Lose It HHMI investigator Catherine Dulac of Harvard University has uncovered a small molecule that plays a big role in the process of tuning olfactory neurons to the environment.