UC researchers studied the sex combs of the fruit fly Drosophilia bipectinata. Credit: Michal Polak/UC Scientists have accepted natural selection as a driver of evolution for more than 160 years, thanks to Charles Darwin. But University of Cincinnati biologist Michal Polak says Darwin's book "The Descent of Man" only tells part of the story....
Top view of two collagen hydrogels that researchers decorated with immobilized mCherry proteins, which glow red under fluorescent light. The team scanned near-infrared lasers in the shapes of a monster (left) and Seattle's Space Needle (right) to create these patterns. Black regions were not scanned with the laser, and so the mCherry protein did...