Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the ...

To determine if ecdysone controlled either of these remodeling processes, the researchers blocked the hormone signaling in the cells. Beat-Va M remodeling was unaffected, but this blockade prevented ...