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There are unexpected epigenetic consequences of exposing cells to high temperatures.

Community members share the latest efforts and opportunities in developing tools for conducting and communicating research.

Shape changes and interactions between the proteins that form ‘spikes’ on the surface of hantaviruses affect how well the viruses can invade cells and multiply.

The same genes and signaling pathways control the formation of limbs in vertebrates, arthropods and cuttlefish.

The working example represents a major milestone in the development of Libero Publisher, a community-supported tool to help modernise academic publishing.

Hippocampal damage is associated with changes across the extended hippocampal system, and these may explain variability in memory between patients presenting with hippocampal amnesia.

The transition to the aggregative stage of Capsaspora owczarzaki, a close unicellular relative to Metazoa, is associated with significant upregulation of orthologs of genes that are important for multicellularity in metazoans.

Immune stimulation from the microbiota prevents neurological damage associated with viral infection of the central nervous system.

A soil fungus and a marine alga form a close partnership in the laboratory that benefits them both.

Red algae have adapted to extreme environments by acquiring genes from bacteria and archaea.