Coral symbiotic alga is capable of degrading the own cell wall components by cellulase-related enzymes and releasing sugars as a simple and autonomous environmental response, even when the host-derived signals are not present.

Essays on the human side of science by Eve Marder.

Experiments show that pathogens spread more easily among relatives causing increased mortality, but such costs are cancelled out by the benefits of living with kin when pathogens are rare.

Science can provide cures and improve health, and it can also make us more humane.

Changes in science over the past 50 years have reduced the chances of trainees experiencing the joy of discovery.

As the equipment needed to perform state-of-the-art research in many areas of biology becomes ever more expensive, Eve Marder worries that researchers in less wealthy institutions might be left behind.

When a scientist dies too early in their career we miss them as a colleague and as a person and, as Eve Marder explains, we also lose the science they would have done.

Eve Marder explains why all scientists should spend time living and working in a foreign country.

A researcher should only be an author on a paper if they have contributed to it in a substantive way.

Eve Marder believes that many of the most important events in our lives, both personal and professional, depend to some degree on luck or chance.