The race to understand the brain has just crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction. Using one of the world’s ...

For decades, biologists treated a familiar marine invertebrate as a kind of living afterthought, a translucent tube that ...

This study provides valuable data on the role of Hsd17b7, a gene involved in cholesterol biosynthesis, as a potential regulator of mechanosensory hair cell function. The authors used both zebrafish ...

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...

Depression, also known as major depressive disorder (MDD), is marked by a loss of interest or pleasure in activities and ...

Background Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is a chronic allergic disease characterised by oesophageal epithelial remodelling, barrier dysfunction and inflammation. The transcription factor forkhead ...