Why Does Puberty Trigger Us To Stop Growing? New Study Sheds Light
Recent research has identified a potential trigger for growth cessation in fruit flies, with implications for understanding human development. The study, focusing on the role of the steroid hormone ecdysone, suggests that growth stops not due to body size but due to a self-regulatory switch in the gland producing the hormone.All animals start out as a single-celled organism and then start growing. At some point, of course, they need to stop getting bigger, but the process by which this happens is poorly understood. New…