A new study reveals evidence of electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals. This elaborate example of cell communication offers key ...

We’re at this tipping point” for AI in biology, Eran Segal, a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and a collaborator of Xing’s, told me. “All the stars aligned, and we have ...

Most mutations which cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, ...

A collaborative effort has shed valuable light on how monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and now histamine help regulate brain physiology and behavior through chemical bonding of ...

XPO7 haploinsufficiency increases the risk of schizophrenia. In the mouse nervous system, it disrupts nuclear export or ...

This important study of regulatory elements and gene expression in the craniofacial region of the fat-tailed dunnart shows that, compared to placental mammals, marsupial craniofacial tissue develops ...

This important work substantially advances our understanding of reactive oxygen species (ROS) as a regenerative signal during postnatal cerebellum repair by activating adaptive progenitor ...