Developmental Biology

Chance of a lifetime (South Philly Review)

24 Jul 2008

Two local teens were part of a polo team that traveled to Nigeria to compete in a UNICEF tournament. At most polo clubs, it’s up to the players to tack their horses — the process of harnessing, saddling and readying the animal for riding — before a match.

Syngenta Half Year Results 2008: Strong performance, positive outlook (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

24 Jul 2008

Sales up 20 percent at constant exchange rates to $7.3 billion

Sex and lifespan linked in worms: A family of sugar-like molecules controls both (PhysOrg)

23 Jul 2008

A group of scientists who set out to study sex pheromones in a tiny worm found that the same family of pheromones also controls a stage in the worms' life cycle, the long-lived dauer larva.