This Review synthesizes an evolutionary framework for understanding the key stages, challenges and microevolutionary processes through which single cells evolve into functionally integrated multi...

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DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mechanism involved in gene regulation. Most methods focus on analysing DNA methylation averaged from multiple reads, yet these average methylation profiles o...

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Here they use scRNA-seq to show that, in the hemichordate Schizocardium californicum, ectoderm and endoderm shift transcriptional identity from larva to adult while mesoderm is transcriptionally conserved, making life stage a major axis of cellular state.

A biography of the physicist recognises his achievements, but also reveals the selfish narcissist underneath

Animal cells extensively remodel their cytoskeleton during differentiation and can notably switch between two major motility modes: flagellum-based swimming and actin-based crawling. We previously sho...

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As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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Neural crest cells (NCCs) are progenitor cells vital in establishing the head, heart, gut and peripheral nervous system of vertebrate embryos. Disruptions to NCC development underlie neurocristopathie...

The emergence of the eukaryotes coincided with the diversification of histone proteins and their post-translational modifications by enzymes that constitute the core of eukaryotic chromatin. Yet the e...

Microtomography reconstructions and phylogenetic analyses of Urokodia aequalis from the Chengjiang biota of China provide an updated interpretation of the evolution of anatomical structures in chelice...

Experiments using the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi and the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis reveal that the emergence of a core signalling pathway may have been a key innovation enabling the transit...