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Twenty years ago, Ruvkun and Ambros, then fellows working in the laboratory of MIT professor H. Robert Horvitz, began studying the genes that control the development of the Caenorhabditis elegans, a 1 mm-long roundworm that biologists often use as a model organism, from newly-hatched larva to fully-grown adult...
When 2,200 food purveyors gathered at the 52nd Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City last week, the 160,000 food products on offer ranged from the ridiculous (Fear Factor Crunchy Larva--real bugs coated in barbecue, cheddar and spicy Mexican flavors) to the sublime (D'Artagnan's Petite Mousse Truffée, a black-truffle-studded, port-infused mousse). Here's a peek at what could be showing up on your grocery shelves...
...LARVA 4 to 14 days So-called wigglers hang just beneath the surface and breathe through a tube...
...that it churned out not just amino acids but also chemicals that can trigger allergies in nut-sensitive consumers. The company quickly scrapped the product. Last spring a study published by Cornell University showed that pollen from some strains of corn with built-in pesticides can kill the larva of the Monarch butterfly, a pest by nobody's standards. "When butterflies start dying," says Kucinich, "I think it's fair to start asking questions...
...smarter than we thought -- at least when it comes to remembering where they put that nice, juicy bug. Behavioral scientists studying scrub jays said that the birds displayed what is known as episodic, or event-based, memory. The jays were able to remember which side of a tray their larva was buried on, and how long ago they put it there; if the larva was past its sell-by date, the birds didn't even...