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Volume 121 (Jan. 2017) of Current Topics in Developmental Biology focuses on fly models of disease. Areas covered include barrier epithelia, sleep disorders, muscle degeneration, neurodegenerative diseases, cancers, and diabetes.

H. Bellen and colleagues are using Drosophila as part of an effort to diagnose previously undiagnosed diseases thought to result from variant gene sequences. Read the inspiring story by the mother of a child with a previously undiagnosed condition. Learn...

Drosophila biologist Barbara Mellone of the University of Connecticut is one of three recipients of the 2016 Women in Cell Biology (WICB) awards. Read more online at ascb.org.

The Genetics Society of America has made TAGC 2016 content and meeting report available online. For more information, see the GSA's Genes to Geneome blog post on the topic.