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About the Authors

Current Contributors Abbey Bigler-Coyne Abbey is a science writer who enjoys making important biological science and public health information accessible to everyone. Rachel Crowley Rachel enjoys using her medicinal chemistry training to create accessible public health content and engaging science education resources. Lauren Dolan Lauren provides current health and science information through social media, blogs, …

Another Piece to a Century-Old Evolutionary Puzzle

After mating about 55,000 pairs of fruit flies and sifting through 333,000 daughter flies, a research team found six sons that each had mutations in the same gene that helped make two fruit fly species unique from each other. Credit: Jim Woolace, Fred Hutch News Service. Nitin Phadnis and Harmit Malik set out to conduct …