Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) queens produce isopropyl myristate, a low-volatility ester that high-ranking animals detect and avoid, which alters prolactin and progesterone in other females t...

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Meningitis is rare in newborns but often dramatic. For the first time, researchers have developed a preventive approach that stops harmful bacteria in their tracks before transmission even occurs. Res...

A University of Basel study shows how different diets shape the evolution of intestinal cells in cichlid fishes.

Scott F. Gilbert announces a new evo-devo textbook, Eco-Evo-Devo: The Environmental Regulation of Development, Evolution, and Health

Nature - Single-cell transcriptomics combined with morphological and ecological data show that the rapid evolutionary radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika was accompanied by dietary...

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Gene expression is a fundamentally stochastic process, with randomness in transcription and translation leading to cell-to-cell variations in mRNA and protein levels. This variation appears in organis...

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Researchers at the University of Basel and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel have demonstrated how quantum mechanical entanglement can be used to measure several physical parameters simultaneously with ...

Why do we feel an irresistible drive to sleep after being awake for too long? A recent study led by Prof. Anissa Kempf at the Biozentrum has revealed that in fruit flies, a small set of neurons can se...

Enteroendocrine cells (EECs) in the gut epithelium secrete diverse hormones that regulate digestion, energy use, and behavior. This study identifies EEC subtypes and their hormone profiles in zebrafis...

This Resource provides a detailed atlas of morphogen-induced responses in human neural organoids.

The Center for Molecular Medicine in partnership with Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Cell Biology and Physiology, Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology and Pediatrics at the University of...

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Developmental processes display temporal differences across species, leading to divergence in organ size and composition. In the cerebral cortex, neurons of diverse identities are generated sequential...