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A combination of old and new techniques have been used to reveal new details about the behavior of individual neurons across the sleep-wake-cycle.

Computational models are helping researchers to understand how certain properties of neurons contribute to respiratory rhythms.

Great care is needed when interpreting claims about the genetic basis of human variation based on data from genome-wide association studies.

Mice get melanoma faster when they have common, inherited variants in a few genes that control cell-wide changes but also respond to the environment.

Oral bacteria colonize the gut more frequently than previously thought.

A series of articles offering philosophical perspectives on the life sciences.

Scientists should be aware of the non-empirical assumptions that influence all kinds of research.

To understand how regeneration works across the different scales of living systems, we first need to identify the essential components underlying this process.