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The Western honey bee provides a model system for studying how closely related species of bacteria are able to coexist in a single community.

A tool that analyzes the genome of parasites found in the blood of malaria patients can help inform policy decisions on how best to tackle the rise in drug-resistant infections.

COVID-19 ‘excess mortality’ has been estimated for more than 100 countries and shows a dramatic death toll in many countries.

Evidence that neurohormones contribute to the contralateral effects of unilateral brain injury challenges a fundamental assumption of basic neuroscience and clinical neurology.

Changes in MAPK signaling allow lung cancer cells to transition between lineages that respond differently to treatment.

An analysis of the grades awarded to cell biology students at University College London suggests that exams may contribute more to the award gap than coursework in this subject.

A mouse model supports the hypothesis that latent Epstein–Barr virus exacerbates the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.

Eating can turn into spitting because individual parts of a muscle cell are able to contract in different ways.

DNA loops can be formed by a mechanism in which the cohesin complex pulls DNA strands through its ring structure using biased Brownian motion.

eLife is pleased to present a Special Issue to highlight recent advances in the growing and increasingly interdisciplinary field of evolutionary medicine.