Deep learning methods have been used to design proteins that can neutralize the effects of three-finger toxins found in snake venom, which could lead to the development of safer and more accessible an...

Abstract. Self-fertile Caenorhabditis nematodes carry a surprising number of Medea elements, alleles that act in heterozygous mothers and cause death or de

A secondary metabolite sensitizes competitor Bacillus subtilis to a wide panel of lytic phages by sequestering iron and preventing the activation of Spo0A.

Although human neural organoids are commonly used to study brain development, it is unclear how well they replicate the biology of primary tissue. These authors conduct a meta-analysis to compare over...

Here, Sharma et al. use microfluidics to simultaneously provide a physical stressor (shear flow) and a chemical stressor (H2O2) to the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The replenishing power of shear flow increases H2O2 effectiveness 50-fold, allowing natural levels of H2O2 to block bacterial migration and growth.

Air density affects the costs of animal flight. This is well-established for flight at high altitude. Shepard et al. show that changes in air density cause regional differences in flight costs at sea level due to latitudinal temperature gradients. They discuss the implications for species distributions and for global change.

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A basic tenet of neuroscience is that animal behavior is generated by neural circuits that operate through synaptic transmission. On top of this synap…

Nature Communications - Chromosome segregation errors are common in the early stages of human embryonic development. By examining the first mitotic divisions of human embryos using live cell...