Newly recovered lumbar vertebrae belonging to Malapa Hominin 2, an adult female of the fossil hominin species Australopithecus sediba, demonstrate that this individual was adapted to upright posture and bipedal locomotion but also had adaptations for climbing in trees.

A computational model, based on single-cell features like contractility and polarizability, quantitatively describes cellular dynamics from the single cell level up to small cohorts and confluent tissues.

Spatial genomics reveals the mode of evolution of a tumour based on the positions of mutations in high-resolution samples.

A new approach measures the respective participations of elementary cell behaviors – such as cell division, intercalation, shape change and death – in the shaping of animal tissues.

Directed mechanical stresses can trigger active T1 events that lead to tissue elongation perpendicular to the main direction of tissue stress.

For initiation of cell-wall insertion, the cross-linking enzyme PBP2 stably binds to a component of the cell envelope that is different from MreB filaments.

Neural sensory representations impose an inductive bias over the space of learning tasks, allowing some tasks to be learned by a downstream neuron more sample-efficiently than others.

Neural network modeling shows that hierarchical application of the simple computational principle of predicting future sensory input from its past can capture features of visual motion processing from the retina to the visual cortex.