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Studying the nutrient composition immediately surrounding pancreatic cancer cells provides new insights into their metabolic properties and how they can evade the immune system to promote disease progression.

Newly developed tools will help researchers understand how the human heart develops and build better models to study and treat congenital heart disease.

Analysis of specimens preserved in amber from the Cretaceous period suggests that nematodes changed their host preference towards insects with a complete metamorphosis more recently.

Genomic analysis has shed light on how hadal snailfish have adapted to living at depths of several thousand metres.

Inhibitory circuit motifs in the mouse brain and the human brain are strikingly similar.

The production of beige adipocytes following cold exposure is blocked as mice get older and leads to changes in the expression of metabolic genes.

In the rain forests of Hainan, China, two species of squirrel create grooves on the surface of smooth nuts so that they can wedge them in the forks between branches.

A subtype of myeloid monocyte mediates the transition from autoimmunity to joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis.

Ecological associations among gut bacteria are largely consistent across hosts in a population of wild baboons.

Ring-like structures made up of caveolae appear to drive the development of membrane invaginations called T-tubules which are important for muscle contraction.