SALT LAKE CITY –- In what may be the cellular equivalent of watching the Grim Reaper in action, University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have shown that two "death activator" genes are ...

Many baffled parents have wondered whether their teenagers would ever stop growing. The answer is obvious, but researchers have never really quite understood just how an organism determines when it ...

Hippo signaling pathway regulates quiescence in the neural stem cells of Drosophila larvae, report scientists. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells able to produce specialized cell types. In the ...

The team, led by postdoctoral researcher Christen Mirth, found that the prothoracic gland, a major endocrine organ situated just in front of the brain, assesses the fly's size as it grows during the ...