In this month's Cell Podcast, we learn how plant defenses have shaped the fussy dining habits of insects, with Anurag Agrawal (0:00) (Trends in Plant Science Special Issue), why after twenty years, John O’Shea is still excited about cytokine signaling, (8:34) (Immunity Special Feature on the JAK-STAT pathway), and why being the right size is a matter of life or death for free-falling rodents, with Andrew Spence (15:15) (Current Biology Special Issue on Size Control). Plus, sample a selection of the hottest new papers from Cell Press (20:46).
