Male orchid bee Euglossa dilemma drinking nectar. Whole genome sequencing efforts by Brand et al. published in G3 revealed that E. dilemma has one of the largest genomes known for insects.

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Congratulations, Fall 2026 Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award recipients!

The Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award helps undergraduate GSA members presenting their research at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference offset the costs of attending the meeting. This year, the 68th Annual Drosophila Research Conference will...

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by Editorial Staff

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Science builds on science, but the databases making that possible are at risk

Scientific discoveries rarely happen in isolation. A finding from one laboratory can inspire an experiment in another, while an observation buried in a decades-old paper might provide the missing piece of an entirely different research...

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by Jenny Montooth

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Beyond the bench: Lyric Jorgensen’s path from neuroscientist to director of science policy at NIH

In this interview, Sarah Ruttenberg of the GSA Early Career Scientist Policy and Advocacy Subcommittee talked with Dr. Lyric Jorgenson, the director of science policy for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Close-up view of a wild-type Junonia coenia wing eyespot pattern. Zhang et al. used CRISPR mutagenesis to interfere with the genetic machinery necessary for making melanin pigments in the colored scales of the butterfly wing. See Zhang et al.

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