Echolocating bats may recognize locations in the environment (and navigate to them) by remembering the specific echo signature of those locations.

Net-winged midge larvae use suction organs covered in spine-like cuticular protrusions to generate powerful attachment on wet and rough surfaces.

Insulinergic neuromodulation of hedonic food processing predicts future weight management and improves with weight loss in older overweight dieters.

Exponential nucleic acid replication can occur isothermally in a prebiotically plausible setting that accumulates and simultaneously separates the strands of nucleic acids through evaporation-driven flows at the gas–water interface.

A novel co-translational mechanism continuously adjusts the expression levels of ribosomal proteins Rpl3 and Rpl4 to their consumption during ribosome synthesis by regulating the abundance of their mRNAs.

Structural flexibility of the synaptobrevin-2 transmembrane domain promotes membrane fusion.

Rudimentary cross-catalytic replication can be established by double-hairpins of tRNA-like sequences, implying that replication and translation could have emerged along a common evolutionary trajectory.

The amphipathic helix at the C-terminus of Complexin II prevents premature secretion, whereas its N-terminal domain regulates mechanisms which are governed by the forward rate of Ca²⁺ binding to Synaptotagmin I.

The far C-terminal domain of CpxII interferes with SNARE assembly and thereby arrests tonic exocytosis.

Naturally-occurring v-SNARE TMD variants differentially regulate fusion pore dynamics and cooperate with phospholipids in supporting membrane curvature at the fusion pore neck.