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How do sea anemones make babies?

Posted by , on 24 October 2026

Stefanie Williams looks back at her sources of inspiration and hurdles she overcame for her second PhD research paper to come to fruition.

Celebrating the Centenary of The Theory of the Gene Through Cinema and Public Outreach

Posted by , on 23 October 2026

This post is co-authored by Dante Albino Idesti and Larissa de Moraes Chiarelli One hundred years ago, in 1926, Thomas Hunt Morgan published The Theory of the Gene, a landmark ...

From killing cells to shaping them: enigma of Caspase-3 beyond apoptosis

Posted by , on 1 September 2026

Small historic background: In an era when caspases are known as killer proteins, Drosophila Malpighian tubules state otherwise. Drosophila is a holometabolous insect, meaning that it goes through three life ...

A Business Engagement Fund project to test Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP)-mediated mRNA delivery and efficacy

Posted by , on 12 May 2026

The Medical Research Council provided £750K in funding for the National Mouse Genetics Network’s Business Engagement Fund with a call for applications in early 2023. The Business Engagement Fund supported ...

A bittersweet acceptance: Between a manuscript and grief

Posted by , on 10 November 2025

I was so excited when I received notification that my first first-author research paper was accepted. My excitement quickly turned into sadness with the realization that my co-PI was not ...

FlyCROSS 2025–26: Call for Drosophila early career scientists

Posted by , on 1 August 2025

Do not miss this call for mentees from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026). The goal of FlyCROSS is to ...

The Season's Script: Tales of Metabolic adaptation #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 9 June 2025

All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week we’ll meet Dr Karin Van der Burg, a new faculty at ...

Finding Fruit in Flies: Therapy for rare diseases #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 19 May 2025

Emerging perspectives in metabolism. This week we’ll meet Dr. Holly Thorpe.

The Fat of the Matter: To know a fly, To know ourselves #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 5 May 2025

All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week, we delve into the story of Dr. Lianna W. Watt, a ...

All the world's a metabolic dance, and we are merely moving to the rhythm!

Posted by , on 25 April 2025

Emerging perspectives in metabolism. #MetabolismMondays begin on April 28th 2025.

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