News Stories on Regulation and Behavior in Organisms

Fruit Flies’ Aerial Stunts Inspire Brain Study (National Geographic News)

Using modern genetic engineering techniques, researchers learn to turn fruit flies’ biological components on and off, in effect removing parts to see how each one affects the whole system.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061120-fruit-flies.html

Scientists Break Down Oil-Eating Microbe (Scientific American)

Scientists sequence the genome of a marine organism into more than three million base pairs and then piece them together into a complete genetic map.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0000C84A-68BF-14CA-A8BF83414B7F011F

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