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The rubella virus can interfere with fetal brain development by infecting immune cells called microglia during pregnancy.

Parasites can use extracellular vesicles and cellular projections called cytonemes to communicate with one another.

As a cell changes size during the cell cycle, why does its density remain constant?

Studying fossils from a mass-mortality event reveals evidence for sexual dimorphism and, unusually, equal numbers of males and females in a herd of dinosaurs.

A detailed study of the orphan receptor Nurr1, a regulator implicated in neurodegenerative diseases, reveals a new way for ligands to control their transcriptional activity.

In songbirds, deafening leads to changes in gene expression which have now been mapped at the single-cell level across the neural circuit involved in song production.

Elucidating the role of one of the proteins produced by Lactiplantibacillus plantarum reveals a new molecule that allows this gut bacterium to support the development of fruit fly larvae.

A complex interplay between structure, conformational dynamics and pharmacology defines distant regulation of G protein-coupled receptors.

A combination of in toto imaging and theory suggests a new mechanism for the remodeling of veins in vascular networks.

Single-cell transcriptome analysis of zebrafish cells clarifies the signalling pathways controlling skin formation and reveals that some cells produce proteins required for human teeth to acquire their enamel.