What were the driving factors behind organelle evolution?
Getting Messages Across to Policy Makers
Strength of logic doesn’t substitute for strength in numbers, and an emotional message!
Extending Knowledge of Life on Earth and Helping Us Find it Elsewhere
Minute fossils from the depths: Deep life on Earth thrives, is fossilized, and may help us identify life elsewhere.
Paradoxical Survival: Examining the Parrondo Effect Across Biology
A plethora of exciting applications in biology has been found for Parrondo’s paradox, in which losing strategies can be combined to produce winning outcomes.
The Unusual Genitalia of Bark Lice
Unique selection pressures can lead to curious outcomes.
Who Discovered DNA?
Why do some crucial scientific discoveries get left out of the canon?
Memory Allocation in the Hippocampus
Thiago França and José Monserrat discuss how episodic memories are coded by the hippocampus.
Surviving Phosphate Limitation via the C-P Lyase Pathway
The mechanisms for how bacteria break down phosphonates in order to overcome times of phosphate limitation.
When Multi-Subunit Complexes Meet: Replisome-Cohesin Interactions at the Replication Fork
Exploring cohesin and replisome interactions during DNA replication.
Eat Less and Live Longer? New Insights on Calorie Restriction and Lifespan
Eric Bourg discusses whether calorie restriction in primates increases lifespan.