Hot males may be less motivated to mate, compounding climate change effects on birds. Associate Professor Kim Rosvall and colleagues examined how heat and behavior interact to affect physiology.
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An image from an article by Professor Justin Kumar's lab in the journal Genetics was featured on the issue's cover.
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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies in the U.S., elected Distinguished Professor Lynda Delph to its ranks in its latest class of honorees.
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IU Holland Summer Science Programs offer high-achieving, underrepresented high school students a chance to interact with faculty and perform hands-on science research.
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John Patton and researchers in his lab will further develop a new technology for a combination oral vaccine to protect infants from viral diarrhea.
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Brian Calvi's lab has found that different forms of the Drosophila p53 protein have overlapping and distinct functions to respond to and fix DNA damage in oocytes and that these functions are important for normal oogenesis and fertility.
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