When Temperatures Get Cold, Newly-Discovered Process Helps Fruit Flies Cope
Monday, July 21, 2014 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
Cold-blooded animals cannot regulate their body temperature, so their cells are stressed when facing temperature extremes. Worse still, even at slightly colder temperatures, some biological processes in the cell are slowed down more than others, which should throw the cells' delicate chemical balance out of whack. Yet, those cells manage to keep their biological processes coordinated. Now researchers have found out how they do that.