VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (October 11, 2006) – The delicate lady bug in your garden could be frighteningly large if only there was a greater concentration of oxygen in the air, a new study concludes. The ...
With support from an NSF grant, two faculty members in biomedical engineering and mechanics have combined forces to answer questions pertaining to insects' breathing. The researchers will study how ...
The tracheal system of Drosophila melanogaster is one of the best characterized multicellular branched organs. Branchless (BNL), a fibroblast growth factor (FGF) ligand, initiates the branching ...