Bacteria use strategies similar to artificial neural networks to use the past to adapt to the future.

Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...

Pérez-Verdugo et al. show that hindbrain neuropore closure is driven by surface ectoderm actomyosin purse-string tension and active migration. These forces create reproducible patterns of cell elongat...

Bacterial populations display extraordinary resilience to antibiotic stress, driven by diverse physiological states that allow some cells to persist and later repopulate. This phenotypic heterogeneity...

Cell competition is a fitness control mechanism in tissues, where less fit cells are eliminated to maintain tissue homeostasis. Two primary mechanisms of cell competition have been identified: contact...

Bacterial metabolic strategies are fundamentally linked to their physical form, yet a quantitative understanding of how cell size and shape constrain the efficiency of biomass production remains poorl...

Intracellular organelles are essential for cellular architecture and function, and their size regulation is critical for maintaining cellular homeosta…

How do single-celled organisms adapt and learn to survive in dynamic environments without a nervous system? Here, we provide experimental evidence and a theoretical model demonstrating learning-like b...

Judge grants restraining order after lawsuit led by the AAMC, challenging the legality of the administration’s plan to make cuts to federally funded research.

Summary: Laser speckle imaging non-invasively quantifies subterranean organism activity by detecting nanometer-scale movements.

Mechanical competition is controlled by biophysical parameters that regulate cellular homeostatic density, while biochemical competition is regulated by parameters that influence the organisation of c...

Gap closure is a common morphogenetic process. In mammals, failure to close the embryonic hindbrain neuropore (HNP) gap causes fatal anencephaly. W...