THE importance of the contacts formed by moving cells in controlling their behaviour has been clearly shown in the phenomenon of contact guidance described by Weiss 1 and in contact inhibition ...

Were there already viruses on Earth when the first living cells appeared billions of years ago ... They consume and convert nutrients into biological molecules or energy and are too small to be seen ...

We demonstrate that E. coli exhibits significantly enhanced chemotaxis in lanes with sidewalls compared to open surfaces, primarily due to cells aligning and swimming along the right sidewalls. By ...

New research shows how the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) changes its brain and bodily size throughout the year. The study, published online in eLife, reveals how changes in gene expression ...