Height in early adulthood is an indicator that integrates across different dimensions of sustainable human development with links to health and longevity, nutrition, education and economic productivity.

Severely immunodeficient B2m-NOG mice transplanted with human peripheral blood mononuclear cells from multiple sclerosis patients partially reproduce disease immunopathology and represent novel experimental models for studying human immune responses to the central nervous system in a rapid and personalized manner.

A combination of chloroplast transformation with nuclear transformation and large-scale metabolic screening of supertransformed plant lines has enabled an entire biochemical pathway to be transferred from a medicinal plant to a high-biomass crop.

Bacteria invade living fungal cells using secreted chitinolytic enzymes that allow for a traceless entry, as shown by microscopic snapshots.

A morphological characterization of Drosophila olfactory receptor neurons—conducted systematically at nanoscale resolution—yields an extensive morphometric dataset, identifies novel features of olfactory sensilla, and raises intriguing questions for how the size and shape of sensory neurons influence their function.

Structural and functional characterization of an unanticipated mode of allosteric activity regulation in ribonucleotide reductases controlled by an ATP-cone in the radical-generating subunit.

The genome of Thermovibrio ammonificans encodes ancestral pathways (e.g., hydrogen oxidation) and more recently acquired ones (e.g., nitrate reduction) and a hybrid pathway for CO₂ fixation.

Experiments and mathematical modelling show that rare nitrogen fixing symbionts invade a population dominated by non-fixing bacteria across plant generations, above a threshold of a combination of ecological factors.

The genome of a tiny tomato pest reveals mechanisms that underlie metazoan genome reduction.

In moths, male receptors tuned to type I female pheromones may not have a monophyletic origin.