The naked mole rat defies the Gompertz law and shows no sign of increased mortality risk as it gets older.

Why does the human regulatory system, which evolution tuned for small satisfactions, now constantly demand 'more'?

The deer mouse (Peromyscus) has emerged as a model system for studying many aspects of biology, supported by extensive historical knowledge of its fascinating and varied natural history.

A citizen science game reveals play interest patterns that could inform crowdsourcing experiment design.

Contact with bacteria and subsequent hypoxia promotes functional maturation of the immature gastrointestinal tract.

E3 ubiquitin ligase Bre1-induced H2B monoubiquitination is epigenetically important for recruiting replication factor Mcm10 and cohesion establishment factors Ctf4, Ctf18 and Eco1 to early replication origins to establish sister chromatid cohesion.

The nearly complete architecture of the gigantic 90S precursor of small ribosomal subunit is determined by cryo-EM.

The western corn rootworm escapes biological control by entomopathogenic nematodes by partitioning and phenocopying the plant defense system for self-protection.

A computational method is presented that quantifies the effect that specific bacteria in the gut have on the immune system and guides the design of therapeutically potent microbial consortia to cure auto-immune disease.