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A new way to culture and image flowers is uncovering the processes that take place in reproductive cells buried deep in plants.

A comparison of nine different approaches over a period of 20 years reveals the most promising indicators for biological age.

New fMRI experiments and machine learning are helping to identify how the mass of objects is processed in the brain.

Fertilization of an egg cell by more than one sperm cell can produce viable progeny in a flowering plant.

Experiments in zebrafish have shed new light on the relationship between development and regeneration in the heart.

Worms with increased levels of the epigenetic mark H3K9me2 have a longer lifespan that can be passed down to future generations.

Bacillus subtilis can measure the activity of the enzymes that remodel the cell wall to ensure that the levels of activity are ‘just right’.

The wide range of cell types produced by single progenitors in the neocortex of mice may result from stochastic rather than deterministic processes.

Combining integrative genomics and systems biology approaches has revealed new and conserved features in the genome of human herpesvirus 6.

Some dopaminergic neurons release both dopamine and nitric oxide to increase the flexibility of olfactory memories.