Differences in patterns of social contact between settings have consequences for the spread and transmission of respiratory pathogens and the effectiveness of different measures aimed at their control.

A principle from which the neuronal dynamics and synaptic plasticity in arbitrary network architectures can be inferred, so that output errors are online minimized while simultaneously processing sensory input streams.

Background selection is shown to be the dominant mode of linked selection in humans, with marked effects on diversity levels throughout autosomes.

Fission yeasts cells have about 190 cytokinesis nodes in a broad band at the equator which scales with cell size and most but not all nodes condense into the contractile ring.

Maternal positional information in the fly embryo can be read rapidly in spite of the gene-expression bottleneck and general examples of regulatory architectures that combine speed and accuracy are provided.