The hormonal circuitry controlling development in plants can be studied and re-programmed with hormone activated Cas9-based repressors.

Selective activation of FZD7 signaling with an engineered WNT mimetic promotes early developmental programs, including endodermal lineage specification, in human pluripotent stem cells.

Research into light-gated ion channels called channelrhodospins laid the foundations for the development of optogenetics, a technique that has gone on to revolutionize neuroscience.

The life cycle and morphology of the sea squirt Ciona intestinalis shed light on vertebrate evolution.

An improved biosensor sheds new light on tension within proteins.

In mice, deleting a long noncoding RNA drives premature aging.

Many scientific terms have been borrowed from ancient languages, but their modern usage often overlooks their etymology, as do many new terms coined by scientists.

Chromatin remodeling processes can drive acinar cell fate decisions.